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ArticleThe annals of applied statistics2014

JOINT ANALYSIS OF SNP AND GENE EXPRESSION DATA IN GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES OF COMPLEX DISEASES.

Yen-Tsung Huang, Tyler J Vanderweele, Xihong Lin

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Article in The annals of applied statistics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 89 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yen-Tsung HuangBrown University.
Tyler J VanderweeleHarvard University.
Xihong LinHarvard University.
Harvard University Press · USJohn Brown University · US

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES000002 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI SUSAN A KORRICK · 1985 to 2026
$44.6M
Statistical Methods for Analysis of Massive Genetic and Genomic Data in Cancer ResearchR35CA197449 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI XIHONG LIN · 2015 to 2026
$10.9M
Superfund Metal Mixtures, Biomarkers and NeurodevelopmentP42ES016454 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI BELLINGER, DAVID C · 2010 to 2015
$10.1M
Statistical Methods for the Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Social Disparities in CancerP01CA134294 · NCI · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI HANEUSE, SEBASTIEN, HERNAN, MIGUEL · 2008 to 2017
$6.8M
Statistical Methods for Correlated and High-Dimensional Biomedical DataR37CA076404 · NCI · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI LIN, XIHONG · 2007 to 2014
$2.5M
Statistical Methods for Correlated Biomedical DataR01CA076404 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI LIN, XIHONG · 2003 to 2006
$1.1M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA134294NCI NIH HHS R01 CA076404NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197449NCI NIH HHS R37 CA076404NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES000002NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES016454
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genetic association studies have been a popular approach for assessing the association between common Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) and complex diseases. However, other genomic data involved in the mechanism from SNPs to disease, e.g., gene expressions, are usually neglected in these association studies. In this paper, we propose to exploit gene expression information to more powerfully test the association between SNPs and diseases by jointly modeling the relations among SNPs, gene expressions and diseases. We propose a variance component test for the total effect of SNPs and a gene expression on disease risk. We cast the test within the causal mediation analysis framework with the gene expression as a potential mediator. For eQTL SNPs, the use of gene expression information can enhance power to test for the total effect of a SNP-set, which are the combined direct and indirect effects of the SNPs mediated through the gene expression, on disease risk. We show that the test statistic under the null hypothesis follows a mixture of

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Causal InferenceData IntegrationMediation AnalysisMixed ModelsScore TestSNP Set AnalysisVariance Component Test

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PMID24729824
PMCPMC3981558
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