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Orienting the causal relationship between imprecisely measured traits using GWAS summary data

Inference about the causal structure that induces correlations between two traits can be achieved by combining genetic associations with a mediation-based approach, as is done in the causal inference test (CIT). However, we show that measurement error in the phenotypes can lead to the CIT inferring...

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Autores principales: Hemani, Gibran, Tilling, Kate, Davey Smith, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5711033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29149188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007081