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This work was funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no 668954. I would like to thank Sander Greenland, Deborah Lawlor, Mohammad Mansournia, and David Richardson for their comments on the draft manuscript.
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Pearce, N. Bias in matched case–control studies: DAGs are not enough. Eur J Epidemiol 33, 1–4 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-018-0362-3
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