一个新型的双样本孟德尔随机化框架,整合常见和罕见的变异:用于评估HDL-C对妊娠前风险的影响
Yu Zhang1, Ming Li1, David M Haas2
1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
|September 2, 2025
概括
门德尔随机化 (MR) 现在整合了罕见的遗传变异,以获得更强的因果推断. 新的MR-CARV框架提高了遗传关联研究的统计能力和精度.
科学领域:
- 遗传学
- 流行病学
- 统计基因组学
背景情况:
- 门德尔随机化 (MR) 使用遗传变异推断因果关系,减轻混和反向因果关系.
- 目前的MR主要使用常见的变体,忽略了可能具有更大的影响的罕见变体.
- 统计和方法方面的挑战限制了罕见变异的使用.
研究的目的:
- 介绍MR-CARV,一种用于双样本孟德尔随机化的新框架.
- 整合常见和罕见的遗传变异以改善因果推断.
- 从测序和联盟中获取全面的遗传数据.
主要方法:
- 将罕见变异聚合到功能类别 (基因编码,非编码等) 使用加权注释.
- 使用STAARpipeline估计罕见变异组的影响.
- 使用现有的MR方法将罕见变异群效应与常见变异效应结合起来.
主要成果:
- 在模拟中,MR-CARV显示了强大的I型错误和增加的统计能力 (相对增加高达66.3%).
- 应用到HDL-C和妊娠前显示MR-CARV (IVW) 提供了比常见变异IVW更精确和更显著的估计.
- 估计的MR-CARV (IVW): -0.021 (SE=0.0101,P=0.0365) 与常见的IVW变异: -0.024 (SE=0.0123,P=0.0538).
结论:
- 在两个样本的MR中,MR-CARV有效地整合了常见和罕见的变异.
- 该框架提高了因果推断的统计能力和精度.
- 在复杂的特征中,MR-CARV提供了更强大的方法来探索遗传结构.
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