Using genetic variation to disentangle the complex relationship between food intake and health outcomes.

Diet is considered as one of the most important modifiable factors influencing human health, but efforts to identify foods or dietary patterns associated with health outcomes often suffer from biases, confounding, and reverse causation. Applying Mendelian randomization in this context may provide ev...

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Main Authors: Nicola Pirastu, Ciara McDonnell, Eryk J Grzeszkowiak, Ninon Mounier, Fumiaki Imamura, Jordi Merino, Felix R Day, Jie Zheng, Nele Taba, Maria Pina Concas, Linda Repetto, Katherine A Kentistou, Antonietta Robino, Tõnu Esko, Peter K Joshi, Krista Fischer, Ken K Ong, Tom R Gaunt, Zoltán Kutalik, John R B Perry, James F Wilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-06-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010162