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ArticleHuman heredity2019

Test Gene-Environment Interactions for Multiple Traits in Sequencing Association Studies.

Jianjun Zhang, Qiuying Sha, Han Hao, Shuanglin Zhang, Xiaoyi Raymond Gao, Xuexia Wang

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Article in Human heredity, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Gene-environment interactions in human health.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jianjun ZhangDepartment of Mathematics, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA.
Qiuying ShaDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA.
Han HaoDepartment of Mathematics, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA.
Shuanglin ZhangDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA.
Xiaoyi Raymond GaoDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Xuexia WangDepartment of Mathematics, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA, xuexia.wang@unt.edu.
University of North Texas · USMichigan Technological University · USThe Ohio State University · US

Funding

Genetic Epidemiology of COPDU01HL089897 · NHLBI · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI CRAPO, JAMES D · 2007 to 2021
$56.9M
Genetic Epidemiology of COPDU01HL089856 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SILVERMAN, EDWIN K · 2007 to 2021
$20.7M
GENETIC ANALYSIS OF COMMON DISEASES: AN EVALUATIONR01GM031575 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY · PI ALMASY, LAURA A. · 1985 to 2016
$7.8M
Genetic Basis of Age-at-Onset of Alzheimer DiseaseRF1AG060472 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI GAO, XIAOYI RAYMOND, LI, YI-JU · 2018 to 2018
$3.6M
Discovery Approach to Ocular HypertensionR01EY027315 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI FINI, M ELIZABETH, GAO, XIAOYI RAYMOND · 2017 to 2020
$2.4M
Statistical Methods for Rare Variant Association StudiesR15HG008209 · NHGRI · MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY · PI SHA, QIUYING · 2016 to 2016
$437k
QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING IN HUMAN PEDIGREESR01MH059490 · NIMH · SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI BLANGERO, JOHN · 1998 to 2000
$426k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY027315NHGRI NIH HHS R15 HG008209NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL089856NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL089897NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG060472NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM031575NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH059490
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationThe risk of many complex diseases is determined by an interplay of genetic and environmental factors. The examination of gene-environment interactions (G×Es) for multiple traits can yield valuable insights about the etiology of the disease and increase power in detecting disease-associated genes. However, the methods for testing G×Es for multiple traits are very limited.

methodWe developed novel approaches to test G×Es for multiple traits in sequencing association studies. We first perform a transformation of multiple traits by using either principal component analysis or standardization analysis. Then, we detect the effects of G×Es using novel proposed tests: testing the effect of an optimally weighted combination of G×Es (TOW-GE) and/or variable weight TOW-GE (VW-TOW-GE). Finally, we employ Fisher's combination test to combine the p values.

resultsExtensive simulation studies show that the type I error rates of the proposed methods are well controlled. Compared to the interaction sequence kernel association test (ISKAT), TOW-GE is more powerful when there are only rare risk and protective variants; VW-TOW-GE is more powerful when there are both rare and common variants. Both TOW-GE and VW-TOW-GE are robust to directions of effects of causal G×Es. Application to the COPDGene Study demonstrates that our proposed methods are very effective.

conclusionsOur proposed methods are useful tools in the identification of G×Es for multiple traits. The proposed methods can be used not only to identify G×Es for common variants, but also for rare variants. Therefore, they can be employed in identifying G×Es in both genome-wide association studies and next-generation sequencing data analyses.

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Fisher’s combination testGene-environment interactionsPrincipal component analysisStandardization analysis

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PMID32417835
PMCPMC7351593
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