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Editorial
. 2021 Feb;124(3):529-530.
doi: 10.1038/s41416-020-01165-0. Epub 2020 Nov 25.

Realising the full potential of MR-PHeWAS in cancer

Jack Bowden  1
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Editorial

Realising the full potential of MR-PHeWAS in cancer

Jack Bowden. Br J Cancer. 2021 Feb.

Abstract

MR-PHeWAS is a powerful new design for discovering causal mechanisms between a disease and its many candidate risk factors in a hypothesis-free manner. This technique has great potential in the field of cancer research, provided that both powerful and principled statistical approaches are used.

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The author declares no competing interests.

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