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ArticleGenetics2019

Reference Trait Analysis Reveals Correlations Between Gene Expression and Quantitative Traits in Disjoint Samples.

Daniel A Skelly, Narayanan Raghupathy, Raymond F Robledo, Joel H Graber, Elissa J Chesler

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Article in Genetics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Daniel A SkellyThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609.ORCID 0000-0002-2329-2216
Narayanan RaghupathyThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609.
Raymond F RobledoThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609.
Joel H GraberThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609.
Elissa J CheslerThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 elissa.chesler@jax.org.ORCID 0000-0002-5642-5062

Funding

Shared Resource ManagementP30CA034196 · NCI · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI William Carl Skarnes · 1985 to 2026
$61.9M
The Maine Biomedical Research Network (INBRE)P20GM103423 · NIGMS · MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LAB · PI Dustin Lynn Updike · 2012 to 2026
$60.0M
Project 5: Circadian RhythmsP50DA039841 · NIDA · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI LAURA G REINHOLDT · 2016 to 2026
$26.2M
Discovery of Addiction-Related Genes with Advanced Mouse ResourcesR01DA037927 · NIDA · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI CHESLER, ELISSA J · 2015 to 2025
$8.1M
Data Structures, Algorithms and Tools for Ontological DiscoveryR01AA018776 · NIAAA · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI CHESLER, ELISSA J · 2010 to 2019
$3.9M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA034196NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA018776NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA039841NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA037927NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103423
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systems genetic analysis of complex traits involves the integrated analysis of genetic, genomic, and disease-related measures. However, these data are often collected separately across multiple study populations, rendering direct correlation of molecular features to complex traits impossible. Recent transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have harnessed gene expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) to associate unmeasured gene expression with a complex trait in genotyped individuals, but this approach relies primarily on strong eQTL. We propose a simple and powerful alternative strategy for correlating independently obtained sets of complex traits and molecular features. In contrast to TWAS, our approach gains precision by correlating complex traits through a common set of continuous phenotypes instead of genetic predictors, and can identify transcript-trait correlations for which the regulation is not genetic. In our approach, a set of multiple quantitative "reference" traits is measured across all individuals, while measures of the complex trait of interest and transcriptional profiles are obtained in disjoint subsamples. A conventional multivariate statistical method, canonical correlation analysis, is used to relate the reference traits and traits of interest to identify gene expression correlates. We evaluate power and sample size requirements of this methodology, as well as performance relative to other methods, via extensive simulation and analysis of a behavioral genetics experiment in 258 Diversity Outbred mice involving two independent sets of anxiety-related behaviors and hippocampal gene expression. After splitting the data set and hiding one set of anxiety-related traits in half the samples, we identified transcripts correlated with the hidden traits using the other set of anxiety-related traits and exploiting the highest canonical correlation (

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Quantitative Trait LociTranscriptomeAnimalsAnxietyGene Expression ProfilingGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansReference Standardsbehavioral geneticscomplex traitsfunctional genomicsRNA-seqstatistical geneticssystems geneticstranscriptome-wide association study

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PMID31113812
PMCPMC6614885

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