Prioritising risk factors for type 2 diabetes: causal inference through genetic approaches
<strong>Purpose of the Review</strong> Causality has been demonstrated for few of the many putative risk factors for type 2 diabetes (T2D) emerging from observational epidemiology. Genetic approaches are increasingly being used to infer causality, and in this review, we discuss how genet...
Main Authors: | Wittemans, L, Lotta, L, Langenberg, C |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Springer US
2018
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