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Reading Mendelian randomisation studies: a guide, glossary, and checklist for clinicians. 2018

Neil M Davies, and Michael V Holmes, and George Davey Smith

Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011634	Public Health	Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.	Community Health,Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health,Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health,Health, Community,Health, Public
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014644	Genetic Variation	Genotypic differences observed among individuals in a population.	Genetic Diversity,Variation, Genetic,Diversity, Genetic,Diversities, Genetic,Genetic Diversities,Genetic Variations,Variations, Genetic
D015984	Causality	The relating of causes to the effects they produce. Causes are termed necessary when they must always precede an effect and sufficient when they initiate or produce an effect. Any of several factors may be associated with the potential disease causation or outcome, including predisposing factors, enabling factors, precipitating factors, reinforcing factors, and risk factors.	Causation,Enabling Factors,Multifactorial Causality,Multiple Causation,Predisposing Factors,Reinforcing Factors,Causalities,Causalities, Multifactorial,Causality, Multifactorial,Causation, Multiple,Causations,Causations, Multiple,Enabling Factor,Factor, Enabling,Factor, Predisposing,Factor, Reinforcing,Factors, Enabling,Factors, Predisposing,Factors, Reinforcing,Multifactorial Causalities,Multiple Causations,Predisposing Factor,Reinforcing Factor
D015986	Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic	Factors that can cause or prevent the outcome of interest but are not intermediate variables of the factor(s) under investigation.	Confounding Factor, Epidemiologic,Confounding Factors, Epidemiological,Confounding Factors, Epidemiology,Confounding Variables,Confounding Variables, Epidemiologic,Confounding Variables, Epidemiological,Confounding Factor, Epidemiological,Confounding Factor, Epidemiology,Confounding Variable,Confounding Variable, Epidemiologic,Confounding Variable, Epidemiological,Epidemiologic Confounding Factor,Epidemiologic Confounding Factors,Epidemiologic Confounding Variable,Epidemiologic Confounding Variables,Epidemiological Confounding Factor,Epidemiological Confounding Factors,Epidemiological Confounding Variable,Epidemiological Confounding Variables,Epidemiology Confounding Factor,Epidemiology Confounding Factors,Variable, Confounding,Variable, Epidemiologic Confounding,Variable, Epidemiological Confounding,Variables, Confounding,Variables, Epidemiologic Confounding,Variables, Epidemiological Confounding
D015987	Effect Modifier, Epidemiologic	Factors that modify the effect of the putative causal factor(s) under study.	Halo Effect,Hawthorne Effect,Interviewer Effect,Conditional Variables,Effect Modifiers, Epidemiologic,Epidemiologic Effect Modifier,Epidemiologic Effect Modifiers,Moderator Variables,Modifiers, Epidemiologic Effect,Conditional Variable,Effect, Halo,Effect, Hawthorne,Effect, Interviewer,Effects, Halo,Effects, Interviewer,Halo Effects,Interviewer Effects,Moderator Variable,Modifier, Epidemiologic Effect,Variable, Conditional,Variable, Moderator,Variables, Conditional,Variables, Moderator
D017063	Outcome Assessment, Health Care	Research aimed at assessing the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured by the attainment of a specified end result or outcome. Measures include parameters such as improved health, lowered morbidity or mortality, and improvement of abnormal states (such as elevated blood pressure).	Assessment, Outcome,Outcome Assessment,Outcome Assessment (Health Care),Outcomes Research,Assessment, Outcomes,Outcome Measures,Outcome Studies,Outcomes Assessment,Assessment, Outcome (Health Care),Assessments, Outcome,Assessments, Outcome (Health Care),Assessments, Outcomes,Measure, Outcome,Measures, Outcome,Outcome Assessments,Outcome Assessments (Health Care),Outcome Measure,Outcome Study,Outcomes Assessments,Research, Outcomes,Studies, Outcome,Study, Outcome
D055106	Genome-Wide Association Study	An analysis comparing the allele frequencies of all available (or a whole GENOME representative set of) polymorphic markers to identify gene candidates or quantitative trait loci associated with a specific organism trait or specific disease or condition.	Genome Wide Association Analysis,Genome Wide Association Study,GWA Study,Genome Wide Association Scan,Genome Wide Association Studies,Whole Genome Association Analysis,Whole Genome Association Study,Association Studies, Genome-Wide,Association Study, Genome-Wide,GWA Studies,Genome-Wide Association Studies,Studies, GWA,Studies, Genome-Wide Association,Study, GWA,Study, Genome-Wide Association
D057182	Mendelian Randomization Analysis	The use of the GENETIC VARIATION of known functions or phenotypes to correlate the causal effects of those functions or phenotypes with a disease outcome.	Analysis, Mendelian Randomization
D064887	Observational Studies as Topic	Works about clinical studies in which participants may receive diagnostic, therapeutic, or other types of interventions, but the investigator does not assign participants to specific interventions (as in an interventional study).	Natural Experiment as Topic,Natural Experiments as Topic,Naturalistic Observation Studies as Topic,Naturalistic Observation Study as Topic,Observational Study as Topic