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Unhealthy Behaviours and Parkinson’s Disease: A Mendelian Randomisation Study
2020-03-27
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Objective</h4> Tobacco smoking, alcohol intake, and high BMI have been identified in observational studies as potentially protective factors against developing Parkinson’s disease (PD). Because of the possibility of residual confounding and reverse causation, it is unclear whether such epidemiological associations are causal. Mendelian randomisation (MR) uses genetic variants to explore causal effects of expos...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6f2e6e37-cd90-526a-b369-697aa6e9d9d9
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.03.25.20039230
