Lipoprotein(a) and Incident Atrial Fibrillation: Leveraging Nature's Randomization to Identify Novel Causal Associations

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022 Apr 26;79(16):1591-1593. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.02.026.
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Keywords: Mendelian randomization; UK Biobank; atrial fibrillation; genetic risk score; lipoprotein(a); survival analysis.

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Atrial Fibrillation* / epidemiology
  • Atrial Fibrillation* / etiology
  • Causality
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Humans
  • Lipoprotein(a)
  • Mendelian Randomization Analysis
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
  • Random Allocation
  • Risk Factors

Substances

  • Lipoprotein(a)