The aim of this one-day workshop is to present the theory accompanied by pre-registered practical demonstrations centred on Mendelian randomisation (MR), from the basic concepts of causality to state-of-the-art methods.
Date: 15 April
Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge of statistics, genetics and R programming. Bring your laptop with R installed on it.
Audience: max 200 participants
Lecturers:
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- Jack Bowden, University of Exeter
- Eleanor Sanders, University of Bristol
- Wes Spiller, University of Bristol
- Ninon Mounier, University of Lausanne
- Tom Richardson, University of Bristol
YouTube practicals:
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- Demonstration of MR-Base
- Demonstration of the Radial MR package
- Demonstration of the multivariable MR package
Live lectures schedule:
Central European Summer Time (CEST) applies