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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2017

Identifying pleiotropic genes in genome-wide association studies from related subjects using the linear mixed model and Fisher combination function.

James J Yang, L Keoki Williams, Anne Buu

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James J YangSchool of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48104, Michigan, USA. jjyang@umich.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0331-9706
L Keoki WilliamsDepartment of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, 48202, Michigan, USA.
Anne BuuDepartment of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48104, Michigan, USA.
University of Michigan · USHenry Ford Health System · US

Funding

PHARMACOGENOMICS OF INHALED CORTICOSTEROID RESPONSIVENESS IN PATIENTS WITH ASTHMAR01AI079139 · NIAID · HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM · PI WILLIAMS, KEOKI · 2009 to 2013
$3.9M
Combined Transcriptomics and Genomics to Find Asthma Genes in Admixed PopulationsR01HL118267 · NHLBI · HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM · PI WILLIAMS, KEOKI · 2014 to 2017
$2.9M
Measurement and Methodology for Daily Patterns of Drug Use and Related BehaviorsR01DA035183 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI BUU, YUH-PEY ANNE, CUNNINGHAM, REBECCA M. · 2013 to 2017
$2.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL118267NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI079139NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA035183
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundA multivariate genome-wide association test is proposed for analyzing data on multivariate quantitative phenotypes collected from related subjects. The proposed method is a two-step approach. The first step models the association between the genotype and marginal phenotype using a linear mixed model. The second step uses the correlation between residuals of the linear mixed model to estimate the null distribution of the Fisher combination test statistic.

resultsThe simulation results show that the proposed method controls the type I error rate and is more powerful than the marginal tests across different population structures (admixed or non-admixed) and relatedness (related or independent). The statistical analysis on the database of the Study of Addiction: Genetics and Environment (SAGE) demonstrates that applying the multivariate association test may facilitate identification of the pleiotropic genes contributing to the risk for alcohol dependence commonly expressed by four correlated phenotypes.

conclusionsThis study proposes a multivariate method for identifying pleiotropic genes while adjusting for cryptic relatedness and population structure between subjects. The two-step approach is not only powerful but also computationally efficient even when the number of subjects and the number of phenotypes are both very large.

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Genome-Wide Association StudyModels, GeneticAlcoholismGenetic PleiotropyGenotypeHumansPhenotypePolymorphism, Single NucleotideAlcohol dependenceFisher combination functionGenome-wide association studyPleiotropySubstance abuse

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PMID28836938
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