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MR-DoC2: Bidirectional Causal Modeling with Instrumental Variables and Data from Relatives.
Behavior genetics - 1 Feb 2023
Castro-de-Araujo Luis F S, Singh Madhurbain, Zhou Yi, Vinh Philip, Verhulst Brad, Dolan Conor V, Neale Michael C
Abstract excerpt
Establishing causality is an essential step towards developing interventions for psychiatric disorders, substance use and many other conditions. While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard for causal inference, they are unethical in many scenarios. Mendelian randomization (MR) can be used in such cases, but importantly both RCTs and MR assume unidirectional causality. In this paper,...
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