4 papers
Multi-Objective Composite Longitudinal Biomarker Scores for Improved Cancer Risk Assessment
Bitan Sarkar, Ana Maria Kenney, James P. Long +4
Repeated blood-based biomarker measurements can improve cancer risk assessment by capturing longitudinal changes missed by single-time-point analyses. Parametric Empirical Bayes (P…
MR-CCC: Bayesian Mendelian Randomization for Causal Cell--Cell Communication
Bitan Sarkar, Yang Ni
Cell--cell communication (CCC) is commonly inferred from ligand--receptor co-expression, an associational paradigm that cannot distinguish causal signaling from shared regulation o…
Multivariable Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization via Bayesian Directed Cyclic Graphical Models with Correlated Errors
Bitan Sarkar, Yuchao Jiang, Tian Ge +1
Mendelian randomization (MR) is a pivotal tool in genetics, genomics, and epidemiology, leveraging genetic variants as instrumental variables to infer causal relationships between…
MR.RGM: An R Package for Fitting Bayesian Multivariate Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Networks
Bitan Sarkar, Yang Ni
Motivation: Mendelian randomization (MR) infers causal relationships between exposures and outcomes using genetic variants as instrumental variables. Typically, MR considers only a…