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Measurement Error and Power in Family-Based Extensions to Mendelian Randomization.
Behavior genetics - 1 Nov 2025
Castro-de-Araujo Luis F S, Singh Madhurbain, Zhou Yi Daniel, Vinh Philip, Maes Hermine H M, Verhulst Brad, Dolan Conor V, Neale Michael C
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Mendelian Randomization (MR) has become an important tool for causal inference in the health sciences. It takes advantage of the random segregation and independent assortment of alleles to control for background confounding factors. In brief, the method works by using genetic variants as instrumental variables, but it depends on the assumption of exclusion restriction, i.e., that the variants affect the outcome...
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