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SUBMITTER: Qi L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3671930 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nutrition reviews 20090801 8
Nutritional epidemiology aims to identify dietary and lifestyle causes for human diseases. Causality inference in nutritional epidemiology is largely based on evidence from studies of observational design, and may be distorted by unmeasured or residual confounding and reverse causation. Mendelian randomization is a recently developed methodology that combines genetic and classical epidemiological analysis to infer causality for environmental exposures, based on the principle of Mendel's law of i ...[more]