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ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics2026

A flexible and unified framework for single- and multi-outcome Mendelian randomization using summary statistics.

Bowei Kang, David Li, Ke Xu, Jianhai Chen, Sihao Feng, Jinyu Wang, Guimin Gao, Shinya Tasaki, Brandon L Pierce, David A Bennett and 1 more

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Article in American journal of human genetics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Bowei KangDepartment of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
David LiDepartment of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Ke XuDepartment of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
Jianhai ChenDepartment of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Sihao FengDepartment of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Jinyu WangDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Guimin GaoDepartment of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Shinya TasakiRush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
Brandon L PierceDepartment of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
David A BennettRush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
Lin S ChenDepartment of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: lchen4@bsd.uchicago.edu.

Funding

Whole Genome Sequencing and Admixture Analyses of Neuropathologic Traits in White, Black, and Latino Americans and BraziliansR01AG075927 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI DAVID ALAN BENNETT · 2023 to 2026
$14.9M
Integrative multivariate association and genomic analysesR01GM154421 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Lin Chen · 2024 to 2026
$1.3M
Integrative Analysis Methods for the dGTEx InitiativeUF1MH139345 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHEN, LIN · 2025 to 2025
$1.2M
Integrative Analysis Methods for the dGTEx InitiativeU01MH139345 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHEN, LIN · 2024 to 2024
$611k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG075927NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM154421NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH139345NIMH NIH HHS UF1 MH139345
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mendelian randomization (MR) is widely used to evaluate causal effects of complex trait exposures on disease outcomes. Recently, MR has been increasingly applied to molecular traits, such as gene expression, to map risk genes. However, transcriptome-wide MR (TWMR) faces unique challenges. The number of available cis-QTLs as instrumental variables (IVs) is often limited, and horizontal pleiotropy is pervasive, violating core MR assumptions and compromising inference validity. We introduce FusioMR, a robust MR framework tailored for molecular trait exposures while also applicable to complex trait exposures. Our single-outcome model, FusioMR

Indexed as

Mendelian Randomization AnalysisModels, GeneticQuantitative Trait LociGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansLinkage DisequilibriumPolymorphism, Single NucleotideTranscriptomeAPAGWASMendelian randomizationsingle-cell eQTLtranscriptome-wide analysis

Identifiers

PMID41997142
PMCPMC13094729

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