Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Mendelian randomisation analysis of the effect of educational attainment and cognitive ability on smoking behaviour

  • Eleanor Sanderson,
  • George Davey Smith,
  • Jack Bowden,
  • Marcus R. Munafò

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10679-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Higher educational attainment is positively associated with a number of health outcomes. Here, Sanderson et al. use multivariable Mendelian randomisation analysis to test whether the association of educational attainment with smoking behaviour is direct or indirectly mediated via general cognitive ability.