Associations of coffee genetic risk scores with consumption of coffee, tea and other beverages in the UK Biobank

ConclusionsCoffee‐related genetic risk scores could be used as instruments for combined coffee and tea consumption in Mendelian randomisation studies. However, associations observed with alcohol consumption require further investigation to determine whether these are due to causal effects of coffee and tea consumption, or biological pleiotropy.

Source: Addiction - August 9, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Amy E. Taylor, George Davey Smith, Marcus R. Munaf ò Tags: Research Report Source Type: research