Mendelian randomization: the challenge of unobserved environmental confounds

Philipp D Koellinger¹, Ronald de Vlaming^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Editorial

Philipp D Koellinger et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2019.

. 2019 Jun 1;48(3):665-671.

doi: 10.1093/ije/dyz138.

Philipp D Koellinger¹, Ronald de Vlaming^{1

2}

¹ Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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