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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2020-10-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18716-x |