Commentary: Does mortality from smoking have implications for future mendelian randomization studies?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1483-1486

  Taylor, Amy E ^a   Munafò, Marcus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NOTE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO CONSUMPTION; TOBACCO USE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; TELOMERE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; SMOKING; TELOMERE; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 84913588391     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyu151     Document Type: Note

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