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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2021

Nontrivial Replication of Loci Detected by Multi-Trait Methods.

Zheng Ning, Yakov A Tsepilov, Sodbo Zh Sharapov, Zhipeng Wang, Alexander K Grishenko, Xiao Feng, Masoud Shirali, Peter K Joshi, James F Wilson, Yudi Pawitan and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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13 authors.

Zheng NingBiostatistics Group, School of Life Sciences and School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Yakov A TsepilovDivision of Biology, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Sodbo Zh SharapovInstitute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Zhipeng WangDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Alexander K GrishenkoInstitute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Xiao FengBiostatistics Group, School of Life Sciences and School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Masoud ShiraliMRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Peter K JoshiCentre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
James F WilsonMRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Yudi PawitanDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Chris S HaleyMRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Yurii S AulchenkoKurchatov Genomics Center, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Xia ShenBiostatistics Group, School of Life Sciences and School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_U127592696Medical Research Council MC_UU_00007/10
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ever-growing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed widespread pleiotropy. To exploit this, various methods that jointly consider associations of a genetic variant with multiple traits have been developed. Most efforts have been made concerning improving GWAS discovery power. However, how to replicate these discovered pleiotropic loci has yet to be discussed thoroughly. Unlike a single-trait scenario, multi-trait replication is not trivial considering the underlying genotype-multi-phenotype map of the associations. Here, we evaluate four methods for replicating multi-trait associations, corresponding to four levels of replication strength. Weak replication cannot justify pleiotropic genetic effects, whereas strong replication using our developed correlation methods can inform consistent pleiotropic genetic effects across the discovery and replication samples. We provide a protocol for replicating multi-trait genetic associations in practice. The described methods are implemented in the free and open-source R package MultiABEL.

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cross-phenotype associationgenome-wide association studygenotype-phenotype mapmultivariate analysispleiotropyreplication

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PMID33613642
PMCPMC7886991

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