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ArticleGenetic epidemiology2022

A two-sample robust Bayesian Mendelian Randomization method accounting for linkage disequilibrium and idiosyncratic pleiotropy with applications to the COVID-19 outcomes.

Anqi Wang, Wei Liu, Zhonghua Liu

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Article in Genetic epidemiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Anqi WangDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4338-7105
Wei LiuDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China.
Zhonghua LiuDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3048-9823

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Abstract

Mendelian randomization (MR) is a statistical method exploiting genetic variants as instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect of modifiable risk factors on an outcome of interest. Despite wide uses of various popular two-sample MR methods based on genome-wide association study summary level data, however, those methods could suffer from potential power loss or/and biased inference when the chosen genetic variants are in linkage disequilibrium (LD), and also have relatively large direct effects on the outcome whose distribution might be heavy-tailed which is commonly referred to as the idiosyncratic pleiotropy phenomenon. To resolve those two issues, we propose a novel Robust Bayesian Mendelian Randomization (RBMR) model that uses the more robust multivariate generalized

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COVID-19Mendelian Randomization AnalysisBayes TheoremGenetic PleiotropyGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansLinkage DisequilibriumModels, GeneticCOVID-19 outcomesEM-type algorithmidiosyncratic pleiotropylinkage disequilibriumMendelian randomizationmultivariate generalized t-distribution

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PMCPMC9648496

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