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ArticleGenomics data2014

Joint GWAS Analysis: Comparing similar GWAS at different genomic resolutions identifies novel pathway associations with six complex diseases.

Michael J McGeachie, George L Clemmer, Jessica Lasky-Su, Amber Dahlin, Benjamin A Raby, Scott T Weiss

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Article in Genomics data, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael J McGeachieChanning Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
George L ClemmerChanning Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Jessica Lasky-SuChanning Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Amber DahlinChanning Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Benjamin A RabyChanning Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Scott T WeissChanning Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

THE PHARMACOGENETICS OF ASTHMA TREATMENTU01HL065899 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI TANTISIRA, KELAN G, WEISS, SCOTT T · 2000 to 2014
$38.5M
The Genetic Epidemiology of Asthma in Costa RicaR37HL066289 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI WEISS, SCOTT T · 2007 to 2015
$14.6M
SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO THE EPIDEMIOLOGY, GENETICS AND GENOMICS OF LUNG DISEASEST32HL007427 · NHLBI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI DAWN L DEMEO, Edwin K Silverman · 1985 to 2026
$13.6M
Statistical GeneticsP01HL083069 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SHAPIRO, STEVEN D · 2007 to 2011
$12.2M
Genetics and Gene Expression Profiling in AsthmaR01HL086601 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI RABY, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER · 2007 to 2015
$6.8M
Translational Genetics and Genomics of Airways DiseasesK12HL089990 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI WEISS, SCOTT T · 2007 to 2012
$1.9M
On the Genetic Determinants of Asthma and ObesityR00HL096840 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI LASKY-SU, JESSICA A · 2010 to 2012
$746k
NHLBI NIH HHS K12 HL089990NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL083069NHLBI NIH HHS R00 HL096840NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL086601NHLBI NIH HHS R37 HL066289NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007427NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL065899
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We show here that combining two existing genome wide association studies (GWAS) yields additional biologically relevant information, beyond that obtained by either GWAS separately. We propose Joint GWAS Analysis, a method that compares a pair of GWAS for similarity among the top SNP associations, top genes identified, gene functional clusters, and top biological pathways. We show that Joint GWAS Analysis identifies additional enriched biological pathways that would be missed by traditional Single-GWAS analysis. Furthermore, we examine the similarities of six complex genetic disorders at the SNP-level, gene-level, gene-cluster-level, and pathway-level. We make concrete hypotheses regarding novel pathway associations for several complex disorders considered, based on the results of Joint GWAS Analysis. Together, these results demonstrate that common complex disorders share substantially more genomic architecture than has been previously realized and that the meta-analysis of GWAS needs not be limited to GWAS of the same phenotype to be informative.

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GWASMeta-analysisPathway enrichmentPleiotropySystems genetics

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