Simultaneous estimation of bi-directional causal effects and heritable confounding from GWAS summary statistics.
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Etat: Public
Version: Final published version
Licence: CC BY 4.0
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serval:BIB_E3BA5FA37823
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Simultaneous estimation of bi-directional causal effects and heritable confounding from GWAS summary statistics.
Périodique
Nature communications
ISSN
2041-1723 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
2041-1723
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
14/12/2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
12
Numéro
1
Pages
7274
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: epublish
Publication Status: epublish
Résumé
Mendelian Randomisation (MR) is an increasingly popular approach that estimates the causal effect of risk factors on complex human traits. While it has seen several extensions that relax its basic assumptions, most suffer from two major limitations; their under-exploitation of genome-wide markers, and sensitivity to the presence of a heritable confounder of the exposure-outcome relationship. To overcome these limitations, we propose a Latent Heritable Confounder MR (LHC-MR) method applicable to association summary statistics, which estimates bi-directional causal effects, direct heritabilities, and confounder effects while accounting for sample overlap. We demonstrate that LHC-MR outperforms several existing MR methods in a wide range of simulation settings and apply it to summary statistics of 13 complex traits. Besides several concordant results with other MR methods, LHC-MR unravels new mechanisms (how disease diagnosis might lead to improved lifestyle) and reveals new causal effects (e.g. HDL cholesterol being protective against high systolic blood pressure), hidden from standard MR methods due to a heritable confounder of opposite effect direction.
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Open Access
Oui
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20/12/2021 13:42
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23/11/2022 8:16