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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-10-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006944 |