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Evidence of a causal relationship between body mass index and psoriasis: A mendelian randomization study

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Evidence that higher BMI leads to a higher risk of psoriasis is provided, which supports the prioritization of therapies and lifestyle interventions aimed at controlling weight for the prevention or treatment of this common skin disease.
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In a mendelian randomization study, Ashley Budu-Aggrey and co-workers study the influence of body mass index on psoriasis.

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‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?

TL;DR: Mendelian randomization provides new opportunities to test causality and demonstrates how investment in the human genome project may contribute to understanding and preventing the adverse effects on human health of modifiable exposures.
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Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

TL;DR: A genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals provide strong support for a role of the central nervous system in obesity susceptibility.
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Mendelian randomization with invalid instruments: effect estimation and bias detection through Egger regression

TL;DR: An adaption of Egger regression can detect some violations of the standard instrumental variable assumptions, and provide an effect estimate which is not subject to these violations, and provides a sensitivity analysis for the robustness of the findings from a Mendelian randomization investigation.
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Consistent Estimation in Mendelian Randomization with Some Invalid Instruments Using a Weighted Median Estimator.

TL;DR: A novel weighted median estimator for combining data on multiple genetic variants into a single causal estimate is presented, which is consistent even when up to 50% of the information comes from invalid instrumental variables.
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