Detection of widespread horizontal pleiotropy in causal relationships inferred from Mendelian randomization between complex traits and diseases

Marie Verbanck(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), Chia‐Yen Chen(Broad Institute), Benjamin M. Neale(Broad Institute), Ron Do(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

Nature Genetics

April 20, 2018

10.1038/s41588-018-0099-7

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