Mendelian randomization

E Sanderson, MM Glymour, MV Holmes… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Mendelian randomization (MR) is a term that applies to the use of genetic variation to
address causal questions about how modifiable exposures influence different outcomes …

Using Mendelian randomization analysis to better understand the relationship between mental health and substance use: a systematic review

JL Treur, MR Munafò, E Logtenberg… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
BackgroundPoor mental health has consistently been associated with substance use
(smoking, alcohol drinking, cannabis use, and consumption of caffeinated drinks). To …

Testing and correcting for weak and pleiotropic instruments in two‐sample multivariable Mendelian randomization

E Sanderson, W Spiller, J Bowden - Statistics in medicine, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Multivariable Mendelian randomization (MVMR) is a form of instrumental variable analysis
which estimates the direct effect of multiple exposures on an outcome using genetic variants …

Evaluating the relationship between alcohol consumption, tobacco use, and cardiovascular disease: A multivariable Mendelian randomization study

DB Rosoff, G Davey Smith, N Mehta, TK Clarke… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Alcohol consumption and smoking, 2 major risk factors for cardiovascular
disease (CVD), often occur together. The objective of this study is to use a wide range of …

Bias correction for inverse variance weighting Mendelian randomization

N Mounier, Z Kutalik - Genetic Epidemiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Inverse‐variance weighted two‐sample Mendelian randomization (IVW‐MR) is the most
widely used approach that utilizes genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) summary …

Cognitive performance protects against Alzheimer's disease independently of educational attainment and intelligence

Y Hu, Y Zhang, H Zhang, S Gao, L Wang, T Wang… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Mendelian-randomization (MR) studies using large-scale genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) have identified causal association between educational attainment and Alzheimer's …

Pleiotropy robust methods for multivariable Mendelian randomization

AJ Grant, S Burgess - Statistics in medicine, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mendelian randomization is a powerful tool for inferring the presence, or otherwise, of
causal effects from observational data. However, the nature of genetic variants is such that …

Independent associations of education, intelligence, and cognition with hypertension and the mediating effects of Cardiometabolic risk factors: a Mendelian …

Y Wang, C Ye, L Kong, J Zheng, M Xu, Y Xu, M Li… - …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Education, intelligence, and cognition are associated with hypertension, but
which one plays the most prominent role in the pathogenesis of hypertension and which …

Robust multivariable Mendelian randomization based on constrained maximum likelihood

Z Lin, H Xue, W Pan - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Mendelian randomization (MR) is a powerful tool for causal inference with observational
genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary data. Compared to the more commonly …

Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization

M Marchi, A Alkema, C **a, CHL Thio, LY Chen… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
It is unclear whether poverty and mental illness are causally related. Using UK Biobank and
Psychiatric Genomic Consortium data, we examined evidence of causal links between …