Commentary: Two-sample Mendelian randomization: Opportunities and challenges

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 908-915

  Lawlor, Debbie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; NOTE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; GENOTYPE; RANDOMIZATION;

GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 85017150051     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw127     Document Type: Note

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