Article
Polygenic modelling of treatment effect heterogeneity.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Nov 2020
Xu Zhi Ming, Burgess Stephen
Abstract excerpt
Mendelian randomization is the use of genetic variants to assess the effect of intervening on a risk factor using observational data. We consider the scenario in which there is a pharmacomimetic (i.e., treatment-mimicking) genetic variant that can be used as a proxy for a particular pharmacological treatment that changes the level of the risk factor. If the association of the pharmacomimetic genetic variant with...
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