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Confounding factors, including tumor purity and mutation burden, can bias association measurements in MI, potentially leading to the misclassification of passenger events as drivers. Conditional mutual information (CMI) provides a robust framework for assessing both linear and nonlinear associations while effectively accounting for different confounding factors. An R package called conMItion is introduced to estimate CMI and its statistical significance for multi-omics data, with the flexibility to adjust for one or two confounding factors. We demonstrated the utilization of conMItion through two use cases. First, we identified interchromosomal somatic copy number alteration\u2013expression associations in bladder cancer. 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