Alex K Chen Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 (edited) Mendelian Randomization mrbase IS the site https://mr-dictionary.mrcieu.ac.uk/section/heterogeneity-and-outlier-detection/ (when you do MR-egger/IVW on genetics of CRP + LDL-C, it seems to remove much of the "bad" effects of both CRP/LDL-C) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35197177/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6694718/ not surprising b/c CRP doesn't seem to be super-central to inflammation's damage (it's downstream of other inflammatory proteins) and LDL-C seems to slightly inversely correlate with epigenetic age [see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21325005/ ] George Davey Smith has written A LOT -https://www.broadinstitute.org/videos/two-decades-or-150-years-mendelian-randomization also god I didn't realize how much more interpretable the research has gotten over the past 5 years the easiest example of collider bias: intelligence and conscientiousness being anti-correlated in a pool of equally qualified applicants to elite competitive universities (or equally competent people!) https://mr-dictionary.mrcieu.ac.uk/term/dag/ == Kejun Ying's 2024 paper used MR on 40k epigenetic variants... (still dont know what it was causal on yet) ==== More general causal interpretability Edited February 14 by InquilineKea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex K Chen Posted February 18 Author Report Share Posted February 18 (edited) EWMR (from https://clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13148-023-01590-x ): Quote The EWMR analysis identifies three causally age-protective CpGs (cg24011261, cg05551922, cg05055782) proxied by one SNP (rs62259939) in the GPX1 gene. These CpGs are also found to be candidates for causal positive effects on the telomere length [see Additional file 4: Table S4A] while at the same time increasing the odds of basal cell carcinoma (e.g. , for cg24011261). I really want to understand EWMR better (mostly b/c Kejun Ying is relevant) but I guess it's not the most urgent thing. There aren't many papers on it... Quote However, it is worth noting that the EWMR approach focuses on genetically controlled methylation sites that were reported to have consistent effects across different tissues [2, 27] providing further evidence that genetically controlled CpGs are more likely to have common functions across tissues compared to those with less direct genetic control. Moreover, blood is one of the top tissues that shares a significant number of CpGs and meQTLs with other tissues, including skin. Some skin-specific CpGs may not be genetically controlled but rather influenced by environmental factors, for example pollution levels or UV radiation. In these cases, the EWMR procedure would not capture the effect of such CpGs, even if the meQTLs data is collected from skin samples Edited February 18 by InquilineKea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex K Chen Posted March 3 Author Report Share Posted March 3 https://youtu.be/jQmlba_B_lg?si=bqqNKZh9dmddbuD0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex K Chen Posted March 3 Author Report Share Posted March 3 (edited) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10625852/ Edited April 24 by InquilineKea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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