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| Title |
Insight into rheumatological cause and effect through the use of Mendelian randomization
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| Published in |
Nature Reviews Rheumatology, July 2016
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| DOI | 10.1038/nrrheum.2016.102 |
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| Authors |
Philip C. Robinson, Hyon K. Choi, Ron Do, Tony R. Merriman |
| Abstract |
Establishing causality of risk factors is important to determine the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying rheumatic diseases, and can facilitate the design of interventions to improve care for affected patients. The presence of unmeasured confounders, as well as reverse causation, is a challenge to the assignment of causality in observational studies. Alleles for genetic variants are randomly inherited at meiosis. Mendelian randomization analysis uses these genetic variants to test whether a particular risk factor is causal for a disease outcome. In this Review of the Mendelian randomization technique, we discuss published results and potential applications in rheumatology, as well as the general clinical utility and limitations of the approach. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 25 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 16% |
| Australia | 4 | 16% |
| United States | 2 | 8% |
| Japan | 2 | 8% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Curaçao | 1 | 4% |
| Russia | 1 | 4% |
| Singapore | 1 | 4% |
| Finland | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 2 | 8% |
| Unknown | 6 | 24% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 10 | 40% |
| Members of the public | 10 | 40% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 12% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 64 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 62 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 14 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 8% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 12 | 19% |
| Unknown | 11 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 21 | 33% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 19% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 13% |
| Mathematics | 2 | 3% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Unknown | 15 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 July 2021.
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#353
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#28,897
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#8
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