Unbiased estimation and asymptotically valid inference in multivariable Mendelian randomization with many weak instrumental variables
多弱工具变量下多变量孟德尔随机化的无偏估计与有效渐近推断
Mendelian randomization (MR) is an instrumental variable (IV) approach to infer causal relationships between exposures and outcomes with genome-wide association studies (GWAS) summary data. However, the multivariable inverse-variance weighting (IVW) approach, which serves as the foundation for most MR approaches, cannot yield unbiased causal effect estimates in the presence of many weak IVs. To address this problem, we proposed the MR using Bias-corrected Estimating Equation…