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Cognitive ability and physical health: a Mendelian randomization study
2016-11-01
Abstract excerpt
Causes of the association between cognitive ability and health remain unknown, but may reflect a shared genetic aetiology. This study examines the causal genetic associations between cognitive ability and physical health. We carried out two-sample Mendelian randomization analyses using the inverse-variance weighted method to test for causality between later life cognitive ability, educational attainment (as a prox...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 354766d1-d917-5d3f-9fe4-998c12df5a52
- DOI
- 10.1101/084798