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Investigating causality in associations between education and smoking: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study

2017-09-07

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<h4>Background</h4> Lower educational attainment is associated with increased rates of smoking, but ascertaining causality is challenging. We used two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses of summary statistics to examine whether educational attainment is causally related to smoking. <h4>Methods and Findings</h4> We used summary statistics from genome-wide association studies of educational attainment and...

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Literature Corpus work: 3a9f3907-4012-595a-9e4a-a24e628b0485
DOI: 10.1101/184218

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