[HTML][HTML] Statistical methods for mediation analysis in the era of high-throughput genomics: current successes and future challenges

P Zeng, Z Shao, X Zhou - Computational and structural biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mediation analysis investigates the intermediate mechanism through which an exposure
exerts its influence on the outcome of interest. Mediation analysis is becoming increasingly …

Structural and functional deficits and couplings in the cortico-striato-thalamo-cerebellar circuitry in social anxiety disorder

X Zhang, X Suo, X Yang, H Lai, N Pan, M He… - Translational …, 2022 - nature.com
Although functional and structural abnormalities in brain regions involved in the
neurobiology of fear and anxiety have been observed in patients with social anxiety disorder …

Large-scale hypothesis testing for causal mediation effects with applications in genome-wide epigenetic studies

Z Liu, J Shen, R Barfield, J Schwartz… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In genome-wide epigenetic studies, it is of great scientific interest to assess whether the
effect of an exposure on a clinical outcome is mediated through DNA methylations …

Estimating the natural indirect effect and the mediation proportion via the product method

C Cheng, D Spiegelman, F Li - BMC medical research methodology, 2021 - Springer
Background The natural indirect effect (NIE) and mediation proportion (MP) are two
measures of primary interest in mediation analysis. The standard approach for mediation …

Dietary patterns and cardiometabolic risks in diverse less-developed ethnic minority regions: results from the China Multi-Ethnic Cohort (CMEC) Study

X **ao, Z Qin, X Lv, Y Dai, Z Ciren, Y Yangla… - The Lancet Regional …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Abstract Background In Western developed countries, food-based dietary patterns have
been associated with the risk of cardiometabolic diseases, but little is known about such …

Causal mediation analysis using high‐dimensional image mediator bounded in irregular domain with an application to breast cancer

S Jiang, GA Colditz - Biometrics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mammography is the primary breast cancer screening strategy. Recent methods have been
developed using the mammogram image to improve breast cancer risk prediction. However …

Suggested guidelines in reporting results from mediation analysis, standardized or unstandardized?

MNF Abrar, H Zhang, Y Jiang - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Mediation analysis is commonly implemented in psychological, epidemiological, and social
behavior studies to identify potential factors that mediate associations between exposures …

Parametric-regression–based causal mediation analysis of binary outcomes and binary mediators: moving beyond the rareness or commonness of the outcome

M Samoilenko, G Lefebvre - American journal of epidemiology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In the causal mediation framework, several parametric-regression–based approaches have
been introduced in the last decade for estimating natural direct and indirect effects. For a …

Exact parametric causal mediation analysis for a binary outcome with a binary mediator

M Doretti, M Raggi, E Stanghellini - Statistical Methods & Applications, 2022 - Springer
With reference to causal mediation analysis, a parametric expression for natural direct and
indirect effects is derived for the setting of a binary outcome with a binary mediator, both …

An exact regression‐based approach for the estimation of natural direct and indirect effects with a binary outcome and a continuous mediator

M Samoilenko, G Lefebvre - Statistics in Medicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the causal mediation framework, a number of parametric regression‐based approaches
have been introduced in recent years for estimating natural direct and indirect effects for a …