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On the association analysis of genome-sequencing data: A spatial clustering approach for partitioning the entire genome into nonoverlapping windows.

Abstract：

:For the association analysis of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) studies, we propose an efficient and fast spatial-clustering algorithm. Compared to existing analysis approaches for WGS data, that define the tested regions either by sliding or consecutive windows of fixed sizes along variants, a meaningful grouping of nearby variants into consecutive regions has the advantage that, compared to sliding window approaches, the number of tested regions is likely to be smaller. In comparison to consecutive, fixed-window approaches, our approach is likely to group nearby variants together. Given existing biological evidence that disease-associated mutations tend to physically cluster in specific regions along the chromosome, the identification of meaningful groups of nearby located variants could thus lead to a potential power gain for association analysis. Our algorithm defines consecutive genomic regions based on the physical positions of the variants, assuming an inhomogeneous Poisson process and groups together nearby variants. As parameters are estimated locally, the algorithm takes the differing variant density along the chromosome into account and provides locally optimal partitioning of variants into consecutive regions. An R-implementation of the algorithm is provided. We discuss the theoretical advances of our algorithm compared to existing, window-based approaches and show the performance and advantage of our introduced algorithm in a simulation study and by an application to Alzheimer's disease WGS data. Our analysis identifies a region in the ITGB3 gene that potentially harbors disease susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease. The region-based association signal of ITGB3 replicates in an independent data set and achieves formally genome-wide significance. Software Implementation: An implementation of the algorithm in R is available at: https://github.com/heidefier/cluster_wgs_data.

journal_name

Genet Epidemiol

journal_title

Genetic epidemiology

authors

Loehlein Fier H,Prokopenko D,Hecker J,Cho MH,Silverman EK,Weiss ST,Tanzi RE,Lange C

doi

10.1002/gepi.22040

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-05-01 00:00:00

pages

332-340

issue

eissn

0741-0395

issn

1098-2272

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On the association analysis of genome-sequencing data: A spatial clustering approach for partitioning the entire genome into nonoverlapping windows.