ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics2022
Powerful and robust inference of complex phenotypes' causal genes with dependent expression quantitative loci by a median-based Mendelian randomization.
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- Methods for Prioritizing Causal Genes in Molecular Studies of Human Disease: The State of the Art.Genetic epidemiology · 2026Review
- Combining xQTL and genome-wide association studies from diverse populations improves druggable gene discovery.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Bayesian inference of genetic pleiotropy identifies drug targets and repurposable medicines for human complex diseases.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- HORNET: tools to find genes with causal evidence and their regulatory networks using eQTLs.Bioinformatics advances · 2025Article
- Identification and validation of a novel geneiScience · 2024Article
- Genome-Wide and Exome-Wide Association Study Identifies Genetic Underpinning of Comorbidity between Myocardial Infarction and Severe Mental Disorders.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- simmrd: An open-source tool to perform simulations in Mendelian randomization.Genetic epidemiology · 2024Article
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- Genetically predicted the causal relationship between gut microbiota and infertility: bidirectional Mendelian randomization analysis in the framework of predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine.The EPMA journal · 2023Article
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Abstract
Isolating the causal genes from numerous genetic association signals in genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of complex phenotypes remains an open and challenging question. In the present study, we proposed a statistical approach, the effective-median-based Mendelian randomization (MR) framework, for inferring the causal genes of complex phenotypes with the GWAS summary statistics (named EMIC). The effective-median method solved the high false-positive issue in the existing MR methods due to either correlation among instrumental variables or noises in approximated linkage disequilibrium (LD). EMIC can further perform a pleiotropy fine-mapping analysis to remove possible false-positive estimates. With the usage of multiple cis-expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), EMIC was also more powerful than the alternative methods for the causal gene inference in the simulated datasets. Furthermore, EMIC rediscovered many known causal genes of complex phenotypes (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and total cholesterol) and reported many new and promising candidate causal genes. In sum, this study provided an efficient solution to discriminate the candidate causal genes from vast amounts of GWAS signals with eQTLs. EMIC has been implemented in our integrative software platform KGGSEE.
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