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Mendelian Randomization: Principles and its usage in Lp(a) research.
Atherosclerosis - 1 May 2022
Lamina Claudia
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Epidemiological studies investigating the association between a biomarker and a disease have many limitations. The most prominent among these is that we cannot impute causality purely from a statistical association. If we observe an association, the biomarker might really be causal for the development of the disease, the association might be caused by a confounding variable or by reverse causation. With Mendelian...
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