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Disease Causation

Disease Causation is a theoretical framework within epidemiology that identifies and establishes the specific etiological relationships between exposures and the occurrence of disease, distinguishing it from mere association by requiring temporality, biological plausibility, and consistency of evidence.

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A contribution to the mathematical theory of epidemics

W. O. Kermack, A. G. McKendrick · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character · 1927 · 12K citations · Full text

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Detection of widespread horizontal pleiotropy in causal relationships inferred from Mendelian randomization between complex traits and diseases

Marie Verbanck, Chia‐Yen Chen, Benjamin M. Neale et al. · Nature Genetics · 2018 · 9.2K citations

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The environment and disease: association or causation?

Austin Bradford Hill · Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2015 · 7.3K citations · Full text

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The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?

Austin Bradford Hill · Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine · 1965 · 6.9K citations · Full text

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‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?*

George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim · International Journal of Epidemiology · 2003 · 6.4K citations

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  1. GD
    George Davey Smith

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    21 publications · 16.5K citations

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    Sander Greenland

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    18 publications · 12.4K citations

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  3. TJ
    Tyler J. VanderWeele

    Harvard University, United States

    19 publications · 1.7K citations

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    James M. Robins

    Harvard University, United States

    15 publications · 14.1K citations

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  5. WD
    W. Dana Flanders

    Emory University, United States

    10 publications · 526 citations

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    54 h-index

    166 publications

    52.4K citations

  2. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    30 h-index

    99 publications

    51.4K citations

  3. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    26 h-index

    49 publications

    4.1K citations

  4. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

    London, United Kingdom

    26 h-index

    76 publications

    8.6K citations

  5. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    25 h-index

    63 publications

    7.5K citations

  6. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    22 h-index

    36 publications

    11.1K citations

  7. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    22 h-index

    44 publications

    3.9K citations

  8. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    22 h-index

    58 publications

    7.4K citations

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  1. American Journal of Epidemiology

    AJE · 118 publications · 19K citations

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  2. Epidemiology

    61 publications · 22K citations

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  3. International Journal of Epidemiology

    48 publications · 21.9K citations

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  4. PubMed

    Repository · 139 publications · 5.7K citations

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  5. American Journal of Public Health

    JPH · 30 publications · 5.6K citations

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