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ArticleBMC genomics2018

LPG: A four-group probabilistic approach to leveraging pleiotropy in genome-wide association studies.

Yi Yang, Mingwei Dai, Jian Huang, Xinyi Lin, Can Yang, Min Chen, Jin Liu

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Yi YangSchool of Statistics and Management, The Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Guoding Road, Shanghai, China.
Mingwei DaiInstitute for Information and System Sciences, Xian Jiaotong University, No.28, Xianning West Road, Xi'an, China.
Jian HuangDepartment of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnics University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, China.
Xinyi LinCentre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Road, Singapore, Singapore.
Can YangDepartment of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China.
Min ChenSchool of Statistics and Management, The Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Guoding Road, Shanghai, China.
Jin LiuCentre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Road, Singapore, Singapore. jin.liu@duke-nus.edu.sg.

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AcRF Tier 2 MOE2016-T2-2-029Duke-NUS Medical School R-913-200-098-263Hong Kong Research Grant Council 12301417Hong Kong Research Grant Council 12316116Hong Kong Research Grant Council 22302815National Science Funding of China 61501389Wellcome Trust
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Abstract

backgroundTo date, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified tens of thousands of genetic variants among a variety of traits/diseases, shedding light on the genetic architecture of complex disease. The polygenicity of complex diseases is a widely accepted phenomenon through which a vast number of risk variants, each with a modest individual effect, collectively contribute to the heritability of complex diseases. This imposes a major challenge on fully characterizing the genetic bases of complex diseases. An immediate implication of polygenicity is that a much larger sample size is required to detect individual risk variants with weak/moderate effects. Meanwhile, accumulating evidence suggests that different complex diseases can share genetic risk variants, a phenomenon known as pleiotropy.

resultsIn this study, we propose a statistical framework for Leveraging Pleiotropic effects in large-scale GWAS data (LPG). LPG utilizes a variational Bayesian expectation-maximization (VBEM) algorithm, making it computationally efficient and scalable for genome-wide-scale analysis. To demonstrate the advantages of LPG over existing methods that do not leverage pleiotropy, we conducted extensive simulation studies and applied LPG to analyze two pairs of disorders (Crohn's disease and Type 1 diabetes, as well as rheumatoid arthritis and Type 1 diabetes). The results indicate that by levelaging pleiotropy, LPG can improve the power of prioritization of risk variants and the accuracy of risk prediction.

conclusionsOur methodology provides a novel and efficient tool to detect pleiotropy among GWAS data for multiple traits/diseases collected from different studies. The software is available at https://github.com/Shufeyangyi2015310117/LPG .

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Genetic PleiotropyAlgorithmsArthritis, RheumatoidBayes TheoremCrohn DiseaseDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1Genome-Wide Association StudyHumansInternet AccessPolymorphism, Single NucleotideUser-Computer InterfaceGenome-wide association studiesPleiotropyVariational Bayesian expectation-maximization

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