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ArticleDiabetologia2023

Drug target Mendelian randomisation: are we really instrumenting drug use?

Emma L Anderson, Dylan M Williams

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Article in Diabetologia, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Drug repurposing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).Expert opinion on drug discovery · 2025
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  8. Introduction to Mendelian randomization.Annals of clinical epidemiology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Emma L AndersonDepartment of Mental Health of Older People, Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK. emma.anderson@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1508-0598
Dylan M WilliamsMRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, Population Science & Experimental Medicine, University College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3825-2487

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/P014437/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Substance-Related DisordersGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMendelian Randomization AnalysisRisk FactorsAlzheimer’s DiseaseDementiaDiabetesDrug targetMendelian randomisationMetformin

Identifiers

PMID36795331
PMCPMC9932405

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.