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A Bayesian approach to Mendelian randomization with multiple pleiotropic variants

We propose a Bayesian approach to Mendelian randomization (MR), where instruments are allowed to exert pleiotropic (i.e. not mediated by the exposure) effects on the outcome. By having these effects represented in the model by unknown parameters, and by imposing a shrinkage prior distribution that a...

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Autores principales: Berzuini, Carlo, Guo, Hui, Burgess, Stephen, Bernardinelli, Luisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6920542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30084873
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxy027