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ArticleThe lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology2023

Mendelian randomisation and vitamin D: the importance of model assumptions.

Guillaume Butler-Laporte, J Brent Richards

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Article in The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Causal inference in health and disease: a review of the principles and applications of Mendelian randomization.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Guillaume Butler-LaporteLady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada; Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada; Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
J Brent RichardsLady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada; Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada; Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada; Department of Twin Research, King's College London, London, UK; 5 Prime Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada. Electronic address: brent.richards@mcgill.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Mendelian Randomization AnalysisVitamin DGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansPolymorphism, Single NucleotideVitaminsVitamin DVitamins

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