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Daniel Illera

Rice University

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Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Organism:human· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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The Causal Pivot: A Structural Approach to Genetic Heterogeneity and Variant Discovery in Complex Diseases

Chad A. Shaw, C.J. Williams, Taotao Tan, Daniel Illera, Na Di, Joshua M Shulman, John W. Belmont

The paper introduces the Causal Pivot (CP) method to detect causal genetic variants in complex diseases using structural causal models and applies it to UK Biobank data for three diseases.

The American Journal of Human Genetics · Aug 18, 2025Peer-reviewedGenetics