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Associate Professor and Group Leader | Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, KU; Genomics, Nutrition, Metabolism.
Aug 25, 2021 10 tweets 6 min read
Our new study on genetic determinants of dietary intake is out in @NatureHumBehav

Paper: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Press release: massgeneral.org/news/press-rel…

Summary stats will be available soon at @AMP_CMDKP

A short summary below: Diet is an extremely complex exposure. In addition to measurement error, noise, correlation with other traits, reverse causation, or variation across life course, diet is based on substitutions. That is, a higher intake of A necessarily implies lower intakes from B and C.