Commentary: CRP and schizophrenia: cause, consequence or confounding?

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Symen Ligthart. Int J Epidemiol. 2019.

. 2019 Oct 1;48(5):1514-1515.

doi: 10.1093/ije/dyz199.

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Dr. Molewaterplein 40, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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Assessing causal links between metabolic traits, inflammation and schizophrenia: a univariable and multivariable, bidirectional Mendelian-randomization study.
Lin BD, Alkema A, Peters T, Zinkstok J, Libuda L, Hebebrand J, Antel J, Hinney A, Cahn W, Adan R, Luykx JJ. Lin BD, et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2019 Oct 1;48(5):1505-1514. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyz176. Int J Epidemiol. 2019. PMID: 31504541 Free PMC article.

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