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  2. Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA

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Yang, Q., Schooling, C. Response to 'Challenge in interpretation of Mendelian randomization studies using lactase persistence as instrumental variable'. Eur J Clin Nutr 72, 181–182 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2017.119

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