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Causal associations between risk factors and common diseases inferred from GWAS summary data

2017-07-26

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Health risk factors such as body mass index (BMI), serum cholesterol and blood pressure are associated with many common diseases. It often remains unclear whether the risk factors are cause or consequence of disease, or whether the associations are the result of confounding. Genetic methods are useful to infer causality because genetic variants are present from birth and therefore unlikely to be confounded with en...

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DOI: 10.1101/168674

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