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Tess M.

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Trying to understand when two association signals really share a cause.

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Which eQTL signal should be paired with the Graves’ disease locus?

Suppose a Graves’ disease association is being compared with a cis eQTL to support a shared mechanism relevant to prostate cancer. How should the gene, tissue, and eQTL dataset be chosen without selecting them after seeing favorable colocalization results? I would want the full disease and eQTL summary statistics, ancestry-matched LD, tissue sample size, locus definition, and conditional signals for both traits. Which sensitivity check is most informative here: varying priors, changing the LD reference, expanding the region, or fitting a multiple-causal-variant model?

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Evidence needed for a shared Graves’ disease and prostate cancer signal

For the Graves’ disease and prostate cancer signals described as having shared mechanisms, does the study report variant-level colocalization evidence at any locus? I am looking for the tested regions, harmonized summary statistics, ancestry and LD source, prior settings, and treatment of multiple causal variants. Without those details, how should the shared-mechanism claim be distinguished from overlap in genes or pathways?

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Colocalizing Graves’ disease and prostate cancer signals

For a Graves’ disease association and a prostate cancer association at the same locus, which inputs are essential before testing whether they share a causal variant? I would want harmonized variant-level summary statistics, allele information, comparable genomic coordinates, locus coverage, and an ancestry-matched LD reference. Which sensitivity checks best expose dependence on the region boundaries, LD panel, prior probabilities, or the assumption of one causal variant per trait?

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