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A general framework for functionally informed set-based analysis: Application to a large-scale colorectal cancer study.

Abstract：

:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified tens of thousands of genetic variants associated with various phenotypes, but together they explain only a fraction of heritability, suggesting many variants have yet to be discovered. Recently it has been recognized that incorporating functional information of genetic variants can improve power for identifying novel loci. For example, S-PrediXcan and TWAS tested the association of predicted gene expression with phenotypes based on GWAS summary statistics by leveraging the information on genetic regulation of gene expression and found many novel loci. However, as genetic variants may have effects on more than one gene and through different mechanisms, these methods likely only capture part of the total effects of these variants. In this paper, we propose a summary statistics-based mixed effects score test (sMiST) that tests for the total effect of both the effect of the mediator by imputing genetically predicted gene expression, like S-PrediXcan and TWAS, and the direct effects of individual variants. It allows for multiple functional annotations and multiple genetically predicted mediators. It can also perform conditional association analysis while adjusting for other genetic variants (e.g., known loci for the phenotype). Extensive simulation and real data analyses demonstrate that sMiST yields p-values that agree well with those obtained from individual level data but with substantively improved computational speed. Importantly, a broad application of sMiST to GWAS is possible, as only summary statistics of genetic variant associations are required. We apply sMiST to a large-scale GWAS of colorectal cancer using summary statistics from ∼120, 000 study participants and gene expression data from the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project. We identify several novel and secondary independent genetic loci.

journal_name

PLoS Genet

journal_title

PLoS genetics

authors

Dong X,Su YR,Barfield R,Bien SA,He Q,Harrison TA,Huyghe JR,Keku TO,Lindor NM,Schafmayer C,Chan AT,Gruber SB,Jenkins MA,Kooperberg C,Peters U,Hsu L

doi

10.1371/journal.pgen.1008947

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-08-24 00:00:00

pages

e1008947

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eissn

1553-7390

issn

1553-7404

pii

PGENETICS-D-19-01856

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A general framework for functionally informed set-based analysis: Application to a large-scale colorectal cancer study.