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pyTWMR: transcriptome-wide Mendelian randomization in python.

Sergey Oreshkov^1,2, Kaido Lepik^3,4,5, Federico Santoni^1,2,6

¹Endocrine, Diabetes and Metabolism Service, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne 1005, Switzerland.

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Genetics
Statistical Genetics
Computational Biology

Background:

Mendelian randomization (MR) is a key method for inferring causal relationships between gene expression and complex traits.
Existing MR approaches have limitations in utilizing multi-SNP instruments and multi-trait exposures for robust causal inference.
Transcriptome-wide summary statistics-based Mendelian Randomization (TWMR) offers an advanced framework for causal inference.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a novel, efficient, and robust Python implementation of the TWMR and its reverse version (revTWMR) algorithms.
To enhance the computational speed and applicability of TWMR for large-scale genetic studies.

Main Methods:

Developed a Python-based software package, pyTWMR, implementing TWMR and revTWMR.
Integrated GPU computational support for accelerated data processing.
Incorporated a robust computation mode to handle highly correlated gene expressions and genetic variants.

Main Results:

The pyTWMR implementation significantly speeds up TWMR analyses through GPU acceleration.
The robust computation mode ensures reliable causal inference even with correlated genetic data.
The software facilitates the use of multiple genetic variants (SNPs) and gene expression traits as exposures.

Conclusions:

pyTWMR provides an efficient and robust computational tool for performing transcriptome-wide Mendelian randomization.
This implementation advances the capability to perform causal inference between gene expression and complex traits using observational data.
The open-source availability of pyTWMR promotes wider adoption and further development in genetic research.