Nature Communications (Jan 2020)
A transcriptome-wide Mendelian randomization study to uncover tissue-dependent regulatory mechanisms across the human phenome
Abstract
Gene expression and how genetic variants can influence gene expression are tissue-specific processes with important implications for phenotypes. Here, Richardson et al. use eQTL data from GTEx and the eQTLGen project in a two-sample SMR + HEIDI framework for causal inference of gene expression associations with complex trait.