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Integrating Family-Based and Mendelian Randomization Designs.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 Mar 2021
Hwang Liang-Dar, Davies Neil M, Warrington Nicole M, Evans David M
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Most Mendelian randomization (MR) studies published in the literature to date have involved analyses of unrelated, putatively independent sets of individuals. However, estimates obtained from these sorts of studies are subject to a range of biases including dynastic effects, assortative mating, residual population stratification, and horizontal pleiotropy. The inclusion of related individuals in MR studies can...
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