Commentary: Orienting causal relationships between two phenotypes using bidirectional Mendelian randomization
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyz149