期刊
FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
卷 12, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.688871
关键词
high-dimensional mediators; confounders; survival model; mediation analysis; propensity score
资金
- Three-year Plan of Shanghai Public Health System Construction [GWV-10.1-XK05]
- Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology [21ZR1436300]
Mediation analysis is a statistical method used to investigate the mechanism of environmental exposures on health outcomes. Researchers propose a high-dimensional mediation analysis procedure using propensity score for adjustment to account for potential confounders. Simulation studies show that this procedure performs well in mediator selection and effect estimation, even as sample size increases.
Mediation analysis is a common statistical method for investigating the mechanism of environmental exposures on health outcomes. Previous studies have extended mediation models with a single mediator to high-dimensional mediators selection. It is often assumed that there are no confounders that influence the relations among the exposure, mediator, and outcome. This is not realistic for the observational studies. To accommodate the potential confounders, we propose a concise and efficient high-dimensional mediation analysis procedure using the propensity score for adjustment. Results from simulation studies demonstrate the proposed procedure has good performance in mediator selection and effect estimation compared with methods that ignore all confounders. Of note, as the sample size increases, the performance of variable selection and mediation effect estimation is as well as the results shown in the method which include all confounders as covariates in the mediation model. By applying this procedure to a TCGA lung cancer data set, we find that lung cancer patients who had serious smoking history have increased the risk of death via the methylation markers cg21926276 and cg20707991 with significant hazard ratios of 1.2093 (95% CI: 1.2019-1.2167) and 1.1388 (95% CI: 1.1339-1.1438), respectively.
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