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Mendelian randomization does not support serum calcium in prostate cancer risk
2018-04-09
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<h4>Background: </h4> Observational studies suggest that dietary and serum calcium are risk factors for prostate cancer. However, such studies suffer from residual confounding (due to unmeasured or imprecisely measured confounders), undermining causal inference. Mendelian randomization uses randomly assigned (hence unconfounded and pre-disease onset) germline genetic variation to proxy for phenotypes and strengthe...
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- f01c0077-048d-5b49-974a-29d45f5c3e2b
- DOI
- 10.1101/297721