When Screening Misleads: A Robust Mendelian Randomization Test for Reliable Causal Discovery
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Mendelian Randomization (MR) has been widely used as a standard approach for identifying causal effects in biomedical research. When the true exposure and outcome variables are unknown among many potential candidates, a common but problematic practice is to first screen for associations and then evaluate causal effects only among exposure-outcome pairs that show significant correlations. We demonstrate that the classical MR ratio estimator suffers from severe type I error inflation under this selection procedure. To address this issue, we propose a novel robust MR test that remains valid regardless of the prior association screening step when there is no true causal effect. We show that the proposed test consistently maintains the correct type I error rate, independent of the association test results. Furthermore, our method can incorporate summary statistics from previous association studies to improve the power of causal effect detection. Extensive simulation studies illustrate the advantages of the proposed method compared with the classical MR approach.