mechanistic
Analysis v1
This is a fancy statistical tool that helps scientists figure out if one thing causes another—like whether a gene affects heart disease directly or through another factor—by using smart math to ignore random noise and focus on real signals.
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A Bayesian approach to Mendelian randomization with multiple pleiotropic variants
Computational/Algorithm Study
2020 Jan 1This study used a smart statistical method that helps scientists figure out if one thing causes another, even when genes affect multiple things at once — and it works for two things happening at the same time, just like the claim says.
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