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Leveraging family history data to disentangle time-varying effects on disease risk using lifecourse mendelian randomization.
European journal of epidemiology - 1 Jul 2023
Richardson Tom G, Urquijo Helena, Holmes Michael V, Davey Smith George
Abstract excerpt
Lifecourse Mendelian randomization is a causal inference technique which harnesses genetic variants with time-varying effects to develop insight into the influence of age-dependent lifestyle factors on disease risk. Here, we apply this approach to evaluate whether childhood body size has a direct consequence on 8 major disease endpoints by analysing parental history data from the UK Biobank study.Our findings...
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