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ArticleBMC genetics2016

A powerful score-based test statistic for detecting gene-gene co-association.

Jing Xu, Zhongshang Yuan, Jiadong Ji, Xiaoshuai Zhang, Hongkai Li, Xuesen Wu, Fuzhong Xue, Yanxun Liu

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Jing XuDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shandong University, 44 Wen Hua Xi Road, PO Box 100, Jinan, 250012, China. xujinghello@163.com.
Zhongshang YuanDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shandong University, 44 Wen Hua Xi Road, PO Box 100, Jinan, 250012, China. yuanzhongshang@sdu.edu.cn.
Jiadong JiDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shandong University, 44 Wen Hua Xi Road, PO Box 100, Jinan, 250012, China. jjdjijiadong@163.com.
Xiaoshuai ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shandong University, 44 Wen Hua Xi Road, PO Box 100, Jinan, 250012, China. zhxiaoshuai@hotmail.com.
Hongkai LiDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shandong University, 44 Wen Hua Xi Road, PO Box 100, Jinan, 250012, China. lihongkaiyouxiang@163.com.
Xuesen WuDepartment of Epidemiology and Statistics, Bengbu Medical College at Bengbu, Anhui, 233030, China. xuesenwu@163.com.
Fuzhong XueDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shandong University, 44 Wen Hua Xi Road, PO Box 100, Jinan, 250012, China. xuefzh@sdu.edu.cn.
Yanxun LiuDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shandong University, 44 Wen Hua Xi Road, PO Box 100, Jinan, 250012, China. liu-yx@sdu.edu.cn.

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Abstract

backgroundThe genetic variants identified by Genome-wide association study (GWAS) can only account for a small proportion of the total heritability for complex disease. The existence of gene-gene joint effects which contains the main effects and their co-association is one of the possible explanations for the "missing heritability" problems. Gene-gene co-association refers to the extent to which the joint effects of two genes differ from the main effects, not only due to the traditional interaction under nearly independent condition but the correlation between genes. Generally, genes tend to work collaboratively within specific pathway or network contributing to the disease and the specific disease-associated locus will often be highly correlated (e.g. single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in linkage disequilibrium). Therefore, we proposed a novel score-based statistic (SBS) as a gene-based method for detecting gene-gene co-association.

resultsVarious simulations illustrate that, under different sample sizes, marginal effects of causal SNPs and co-association levels, the proposed SBS has the better performance than other existed methods including single SNP-based and principle component analysis (PCA)-based logistic regression model, the statistics based on canonical correlations (CCU), kernel canonical correlation analysis (KCCU), partial least squares path modeling (PLSPM) and delta-square (δ (2)) statistic. The real data analysis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) further confirmed its advantages in practice.

conclusionsSBS is a powerful and efficient gene-based method for detecting gene-gene co-association.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksModels, GeneticModels, StatisticalArthritis, RheumatoidComputer SimulationGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansInheritance PatternsPolymorphism, Single NucleotidePrincipal Component Analysis

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PMID26822525
PMCPMC4731962

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