Testing and controlling for horizontal pleiotropy with probabilistic Mendelian randomization in transcriptome-wide association studies

Transcriptome-wide association studies integrate GWAS and transcriptome data to examine the molecular mechanisms underlying disease etiology. Here the authors present PMR-Egger, a powerful TWAS method based on probabilistic Mendelian Randomization.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhongshang Yuan, Huanhuan Zhu, Ping Zeng, Sheng Yang, Shiquan Sun, Can Yang, Jin Liu, Xiang Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17668-6