Evaluation of the causal effect of fibrinogen on incident coronary heart disease via Mendelian randomization
Cavin K Ward-Caviness, Paul S. de Vries, Kerri L. Wiggins, Jennifer E. Huffman, Lisa R. Yanek, Lawrence F. Bielak, Franco Giulianini, Xiuqing Guo, Marcus Edi Kleber, Tim Kacprowski, Astrid Petersman, George Davey Smith, Fernando Pires Hartwig, Jack Bowden, Gibran Hemani, , Alanna C. Morrison
This paper evaluates the causal effect of fibrinogen on coronary heart disease using Mendelian randomization, finding a small effect with multi-variant methods but not with single variant approaches.
PLoS ONE · May 10, 2019Peer-reviewedGenetics