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MRSamePopTest: introducing a simple falsification test for the two-sample mendelian randomisation 'same population' assumption.
BMC research notes - 17 Jan 2024
Woolf Benjamin, Mason Amy, Zagkos Loukas, Sallis Hannah, Munafò Marcus R, Gill Dipender
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Two-sample MR is an increasingly popular method for strengthening causal inference in epidemiological studies. For the effect estimates to be meaningful, variant-exposure and variant-outcome associations must come from comparable populations. A recent systematic review of two-sample MR studies found that, if assessed at all, MR studies evaluated this assumption by checking that the genetic association studies had...
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