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Phenome-wide screening of GWAS data reveals the complex causal architecture of obesity.
Human genetics - 1 Aug 2021
García-Marín Luis M, Campos Adrián I, Kho Pik-Fang, Martin Nicholas G, Cuéllar-Partida Gabriel, Rentería Miguel E
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OBJECTIVE: In the present study, we sought to identify causal relationships between obesity and other complex traits and conditions using a data-driven hypothesis-free approach that uses genetic data to infer causal associations. METHODS: We leveraged available summary-based genetic data from genome-wide association studies on 1498 phenotypes and applied the latent causal variable method (LCV) between obesity and...
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