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Mendelian randomization in nutritional epidemiology.
Nutrition reviews - 1 Aug 2009
Qi Lu
Abstract excerpt
Nutritional epidemiology aims to identify dietary and lifestyle causes for human diseases. Causality inference in nutritional epidemiology is largely based on evidence from studies of observational design, and may be distorted by unmeasured or residual confounding and reverse causation. Mendelian randomization is a recently developed methodology that combines genetic and classical epidemiological analysis to...
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