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The trouble with triples: Examining the impact of measurement error in mediation analysis.
Genetics - 4 May 2023
Gastonguay Madeleine S, Keele Gregory R, Churchill Gary A
Abstract excerpt
Mediation analysis is used in genetic mapping studies to identify candidate gene mediators of quantitative trait loci (QTL). We consider genetic mediation analysis of triplets-sets of three variables consisting of a target trait, the genotype at a QTL for the target trait, and a candidate mediator that is the abundance of a transcript or protein whose coding gene co-locates with the QTL. We show that, in the...
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