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ArticleEuropean journal of epidemiology2025

The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies.

Gibran Hemani, Stefan Stender, Frank J Wolters, Albert Hofman, George Davey Smith

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Article in European journal of epidemiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Gibran HemaniMedical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK. g.hemani@bristol.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0920-1055
Stefan StenderDepartment of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Frank J WoltersDepartment of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Albert HofmanDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
George Davey SmithMedical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_00032/01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID41196509
PMCPMC12660478

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