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  • Epidemiology
  • Metabolomics

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  • Cardiometabolic health is influenced by diet, with plasma metabolomes potentially mediating this relationship.
  • Analyzing high-dimensional omics data for causal mediation presents statistical challenges, including complex mediator dependencies.

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  • To propose a novel Bayesian framework for high-dimensional mediation analysis.
  • To identify active biological pathways and estimate indirect effects in diet-cardiometabolic health research.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a Bayesian framework incorporating novel priors for selection indicators in mediator and outcome models.
  • Utilized a Markov random field prior to leverage mediator correlations and enhance power.
  • Implemented sequential subsetting priors for simultaneous selection of mediators and indirect effects.

Main Results:

  • The proposed Bayesian method demonstrated superior power in detecting active mediating pathways compared to existing approaches.
  • Simulations confirmed the method's effectiveness in stable and interpretable estimation and selection of indirect effects.

Conclusions:

  • The novel Bayesian framework offers a powerful tool for high-dimensional mediation analysis in omics data.
  • Applied to real-world metabolomics data, the method effectively highlights diet-cardiometabolic health associations via plasma metabolomes.