10th – 12th October 2005, Brno, Czech Republic

  held by Paul Brennan, Head of the Genetic Epidemiology Group at the International Agency for Cancer Research in Lyon, and George Davey Smith, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology from Bristol University.

Mendel randomization is a new procedure to reveal the causative nature of the influence of the environment in genetically associated studies based on the Mendel principle not dependent on gene combination.