Mediation analysis in longitudinal data: an unbiased estimator for cumulative indirect effect
Li, Y.; Cabral, H.; Tripodis, Y.; Ma, J.; Levy, D.; Joehanes, R.; Liu, C.; Lee, J.
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Mediation analysis quantifies how an exposure affects an outcome through an intermediate variable. We extend mediation analysis to capture the cumulative effects of longitudinal predictors on longitudinal outcomes. Our proposed model examines how mediators transmit the effects of the current and previous exposure on the current outcome. We construct a least-squared estimator for cumulative indirect effect (CIE) and used three approaches (exact form, delta method, and bootstrap procedure) to estimate its standard error (SE). The estimator of CIE is unbiased with no unmeasured confounding and independent model errors between mediator model and outcome model at all time points, as shown in statistical inference and in simulations. While three SE estimates are numerically similar, bootstrap procedure is recommended due to its simplicity in implementation. We apply this method to Framingham Heart Study offspring cohort to assess if DNA methylation mediates the association of alcohol consumption with systolic blood pressure over two time points. We identify two CpGs (cg05130679 and cg05465916) as mediators and construct a composite DNA methylation score from 11 CpGs, which mediates for 39% of the cumulative effect. In conclusion, we propose an unbiased estimator for CIE. Future studies will investigate the missingness in mediators and outcomes.
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