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Mendelian randomizationObservational studyCausationEpidemiologyCausal inferenceMedicineCausality (physics)BiologyGeneticsPathologyPhilosophyEpistemology
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CausalityEpidemiologic MethodsHumansObservationRandom Allocation
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- Year
- 2007
- Type
- letter
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 414-416
- Citations
- 31
- Access
- Closed
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Murielle Bochud,
Arnaud Chioléro,
Robert C. Elston
et al.
(2007).
A cautionary note on the use of Mendelian randomization to infer causation in observational epidemiology.
International Journal of Epidemiology
, 37
(2)
, 414-416.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dym186
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- DOI
- 10.1093/ije/dym186
- PMID
- 17881410