Genetic epidemiology and Mendelian randomization for informing disease therapeutics: Conceptual and methodological challenges.

The past decade has been proclaimed as a hugely successful era of gene discovery through the high yields of many genome-wide association studies (GWAS). However, much of the perceived benefit of such discoveries lies in the promise that the identification of genes that influence disease would direct...

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Main Authors: Lavinia Paternoster, Kate Tilling, George Davey Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-10-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006944