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A Mendelian randomization-based drug repurposing pipeline

2026-03-02 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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Drug repurposing offers the opportunity to identify promising drug targets efficiently using existing data, but there are currently limitations to these efforts; there is a particular need for versatile, but rigorous high-throughput approaches. As such, we developed a flexible, high-throughput, Mendelian randomization (MR)-based drug repurposing pipeline with three stages: 1) MR-based identification, 2) MR-based validation and prioritization, and 3) application. This pipeline can be applied to a...

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