GeneticsAmerican Journal of EpidemiologyPeer-reviewed
A Hierarchical Approach Using Marginal Summary Statistics for Multiple Intermediates in a Mendelian Randomization or Transcriptome Analysis
Lai Jiang, Shujing Xu, Nicholas Mancuso…·David V. Conti
This paper introduces hJAM, a hierarchical model that improves causal inference in Mendelian randomization and transcriptome-wide association studies by incorporating prior information and accounting for SNP correlations.