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Although there is an extensive statistical literature on adjusting for \u2018multiple comparisons\u2019 when testing whether these biomarkers are directly associated with a disease, testing whether they are biological mediators between a known risk factor and a disease requires a more complex null hypothesis, thus offering additional methodological challenges.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results:\u2003We propose a permutation approach that tests multiple putative mediators and controls the family wise error rate. We demonstrate that, unlike when testing direct associations, replacing the Bonferroni correction with a permutation approach that focuses on the maximum of the test statistics can significantly improve the power to detect mediators even when all biomarkers are independent. Through simulations, we show the power of our method is 2\u20135\u00d7 larger than the power achieved by Bonferroni correction. 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