bio-causal-genomics-pleiotropy-detection

bio-causal-genomics-pleiotropy-detection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 137 tokens per session (9,186 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for detecting horizontal pleiotropy in Mendelian randomization, where genetic variants affect an outcome through pathways other than the exposure being studied. Mendelian randomization uses genetic variants to estimate possible causal effects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test and adjust for pleiotropic bias, compare methods under different pleiotropy patterns, and assess the robustness of two-sample Mendelian-randomization results.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether a reported causal effect may instead reflect genetic variants influencing the outcome through other routes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/pleiotropy-detection
Any agent
npx skills add GPTomics/bioSkills --skill pleiotropy-detection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,186 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00137 $0.09186
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.04593
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.01837
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00919

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6ae8fa480d44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-causal-genomics-pleiotropy-detection scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

causal-genomics/pleiotropy-detection/SKILL.md · 437 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 437 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: TwoSampleMR 0.5.11+, MendelianRandomization 0.9.0+, MR-PRESSO 1.0+, CAUSE 1.2.0+, MR-Clust 0.1.0+, MRMix 0.1+, mr.raps 0.4.1+ (GitHub), LHC-MR 0.0.0.9000+ (GitHub), LCV (script-based, no version tag), simex 1.8+.

Before using code patterns, verify installed versions match. If versions differ:

  • R: packageVersion('<pkg>') then ?function_name to verify parameters
  • For GitHub-only packages, check the repo HEAD vs the local install date

If code throws errors, introspect the installed package and adapt the example rather than retrying.

Pleiotropy Detection in Mendelian Randomization

"Validate my MR result against pleiotropic bias" -> Decompose violations of the exclusion-restriction assumption into uncorrelated horizontal pleiotropy (UHP, addressable by Egger / median / mode / MR-PRESSO) and correlated horizontal pleiotropy (CHP, addressable only by CAUSE / LHC-MR / LCV), then run a method battery whose assumptions span both regimes.

  • R: TwoSampleMR::mr() (IVW + Egger + median + mode), mr_pleiotropy_test(), mr_heterogeneity(), mr_leaveoneout(), directionality_test()
  • R: MRPRESSO::mr_presso() for UHP outlier removal + distortion test
  • R: cause::cause() for CHP-aware estimation; mrclust::mr_clust_em() for mechanism-heterogeneous instruments
  • R: MendelianRandomization::mr_conmix() for contamination mixture; MRMix::MRMix() for mixture-of-distributions

UHP vs CHP: The Central Postdoc-Grade Distinction

Horizontal pleiotropy comes in two regimes, and most "standard" MR sensitivity methods address only one of them.

Regime Definition InSIDE assumption Methods that handle it
UHP (uncorrelated horizontal pleiotropy) Pleiotropic effect alpha_j independent of instrument-exposure effect gamma_j Holds IVW (balanced UHP only), MR-Egger, weighted median, weighted mode, MR-PRESSO, MR-RAPS, MR-Mix, contamination mixture
CHP (correlated horizontal pleiotropy) alpha_j correlates with gamma_j through a shared upstream factor (heritable confounder, network mediator) Violated CAUSE, LHC-MR, LCV, MR-Clust (partial), Steiger-filtered MR (partial)

Read the full file on GitHub · 437 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 437 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A 6ae8fa480d44

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bio-causal-genomics-pleiotropy-detection is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,199 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 9,186 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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