Mendelian randomization while jointly modeling cis genetics identifies causal relationships between gene expression and lipids

Mendelian randomization is a useful tool to infer causal relationships between traits, but can be confounded by the presence of pleiotropy. Here, the authors have developed MR-link, a Mendelian randomization method which accounts for unobserved pleiotropy and linkage disequilibrium between instrumen...

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Main Authors: Adriaan van der Graaf, Annique Claringbould, Antoine Rimbert, BIOS Consortium, Harm-Jan Westra, Yang Li, Cisca Wijmenga, Serena Sanna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18716-x