Mendelian randomisation and causal inference in observational epidemiology

Autor:	Vanessa Didelez, Martin D. Tobin, Paul R S Burton, Nuala A. Sheehan
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology Public Health and Epidemiology lcsh:Medicine Observation Biology law.invention 03 medical and health sciences symbols.namesake 0302 clinical medicine Randomized controlled trial law Mendelian randomization Statistics Research Methods medicine Genetics Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry 030304 developmental biology Research in Translation Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic 0303 health sciences Instrumental variable Confounding lcsh:R General Medicine Genetic epidemiology Research Design Causal inference Mendelian inheritance symbols Observational study
Zdroj:	PLoS Medicine, Vol 5, Iss 8, p e177 (2008) PLoS Medicine
ISSN:	1549-1676 1549-1277
Popis:	Nuala Sheehan and colleagues describe how Mendelian randomization provides an alternative way of dealing with the problems of observational studies, especially confounding.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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