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Trial eligibility can make genetic scores appear to predict treatment response

A medRxiv preprint reports that trial eligibility criteria can create apparent differences in lipid-lowering treatment response by polygenic risk score, even when the true genetic interaction is set to zero. Its cohort analyses found little evidence that coronary artery disease risk scores modified statin effects.

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SPIRIT template modestly improves trial protocol reporting

A randomised trial at BMJ Open found that asking authors to use a SPIRIT-based template during revision modestly improved the completeness of randomised trial protocols. Revision times were similar between groups, although some responding authors found the template time-consuming.