A modified debiased inverse-variance weighted estimator in two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization
两样本汇总数据孟德尔随机化中的修正去偏逆方差加权估计
Mendelian randomization uses genetic variants as instrumental variables to make causal inferences about the effects of modifiable risk factors on diseases from observational data. One of the major challenges in Mendelian randomization is that many genetic variants are only modestly or even weakly associated with the risk factor of interest, a setting known as many weak instruments. Many existing methods, such as the popular inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method, could be…