Robust inference in summary data Mendelian randomization via the zero modal pleiotropy assumption

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1985-1998

  Hartwig, Fernando Pires ^a,b   Smith, George Davey ^b,c   Bowden, Jack ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality; Genetic pleiotropy; Genetic variation; Instrumental variables; Mendelian randomization

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; URATE;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CYTOGENETICS; DATA SET; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; INSTRUMENTATION; LIPID; NUMERICAL METHOD; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CAUSALITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CAUSALITY; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 85036649300     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx102     Document Type: Article

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