Mendelian randomization studies for a continuous exposure under case-control sampling

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 181, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 440-449

  Dai, James Y ^a,b   Zhang, Xinyi Cindy ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

2 stage instrumental variables method; biased sampling; causal inference; instrumental variable; secondary trait association

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENOTYPE; INSTRUMENTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EXPOSURE; GENOTYPE; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; ODDS RATIO; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 84924353834     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu291     Document Type: Article

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