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Adjusting for genetic confounders in transcriptome-wide association studies improves discovery of risk genes of complex traits.
Nature genetics - 1 Feb 2024
Zhao Siming, Crouse Wesley, Qian Sheng, Luo Kaixuan, Stephens Matthew, He Xin
Abstract excerpt
Many methods have been developed to leverage expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) data to nominate candidate genes from genome-wide association studies. These methods, including colocalization, transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) and Mendelian randomization-based methods; however, all suffer from a key problem-when assessing the role of a gene in a trait using its eQTLs, nearby variants and genetic...
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