Mendelian Randomisation and Causal Inference in Observational Epidemiology

Nuala A Sheehan, Vanessa Didelez, Paul R Burton and Martin D Tobin

PLOS Medicine, 2008, vol. 5, issue 8, 1-6

Abstract: Nuala Sheehan and colleagues describe how Mendelian randomization provides an alternative way of dealing with the problems of observational studies, especially confounding.

Date: 2008
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