MR-CCC: Bayesian Mendelian Randomization for Causal Cell--Cell Communication
MR-CCC:细胞间因果通信的贝叶斯孟德尔随机化
Cell--cell communication (CCC) is commonly inferred from ligand--receptor co-expression, an associational paradigm that cannot distinguish causal signaling from shared regulation or confounding. We propose MR-CCC, a Bayesian Mendelian randomization framework that uses cis-eQTLs as instruments for ligand and receptor expression and explicitly models receptor-modulated ligand effects through an interaction term, so the causal effect of a ligand can vary with receptor…