Extract mediating biomarkers for a given gene

The function runs aggregates top correlated biomarkers to a given gene of interest and exports the list

gatherMediators(geneInt, qtlFull, numMed)

Arguments

geneInt	character, identifier for gene of interest
qtlFull	data frame, mediator-gene qtl results
numMed	numeric, user-defined maximum number of correlated mediators

Value

a vector of correlated biomarkers to be treated as mediators