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    • Complex diseases involve interactions between risk factors and specific population groups.
    • Current methods for detecting these interactions often require individual-level data, which can be limited.
    • Assessing interactions is crucial for understanding disease mechanisms but faces data availability challenges.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop an integrative Mendelian randomization (MR) method, int2MR, for detecting interactions using genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics.
    • To overcome limitations of individual-level data in assessing risk factor interactions across different groups.
    • To provide a robust tool for exploring group-specific or interaction effects in complex traits.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed int2MR, leveraging GWAS summary statistics for exposure traits and group-separated/combined GWAS statistics for outcome traits.
    • Conducted simulation studies to evaluate type I error rates and power gains.
    • Applied int2MR to analyze sex-interaction effects on ADHD and age-group-specific risk factors for Alzheimer's disease.

    Main Results:

    • int2MR effectively controls type I error rates and shows power gains, especially with group-combined GWAS data.
    • Identified sex-interaction effects on ADHD, suggesting potential sex differences in inflammation.
    • Detected age-group-specific risk factors for Alzheimer's disease in individuals aged 95+, many linked to immune and inflammatory processes.

    Conclusions:

    • int2MR is a powerful and flexible method for assessing interaction effects using summary-level GWAS data.
    • Findings highlight the role of inflammation in sex-specific ADHD and in the oldest-old with Alzheimer's disease.
    • The method offers novel insights into complex disease mechanisms previously unattainable with limited data.