bmi.sbp

Summary data obtained by combining three genome-wide association studies:<ol>
<li>BMI-FEM: BMI in females by the Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits (GIANT) consortium (sample size: 171977).</li>
<li>BMI-MAL: BMI in males in the same study by the GIANT consortium (sam- ple size: 152893)</li>
<li>SBP-UKBB: SBP using the United Kingdom BioBank (UKBB) data (sample size: 317754)</li>
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Mendelian randomization is a method of identifying and estimating a confounded causal effect using genetic instrumental variables. This packages implements methods for two-sample Mendelian randomization with summary statistics by using Robust Adjusted Profile Score (RAPS). References: Qingyuan Zhao, Jingshu Wang, Jack Bowden, Dylan S. Small. Statistical inference in two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization using robust adjusted profile score. <arXiv:1801.09652>.

Qingyuan Zhao

mr.raps

bmi.sbp: Effect of Body Mass Index (BMI) on Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP)

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