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ArticleNucleic acids research2022

Deviation from baseline mutation burden provides powerful and robust rare-variants association test for complex diseases.

Lin Jiang, Hui Jiang, Sheng Dai, Ying Chen, Youqiang Song, Clara Sze-Man Tang, Shirley Yin-Yu Pang, Shu-Leong Ho, Binbin Wang, Maria-Mercedes Garcia-Barcelo and 5 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Lin JiangProgram in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine and The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Hui JiangProgram in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine and The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Sheng DaiProgram in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine and The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Ying ChenProgram in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine and The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Youqiang SongSchool of Biomedical Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.ORCID 0000-0001-9407-2256
Clara Sze-Man TangDepartment of Surgery, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.
Shirley Yin-Yu PangDivision of Neurology, Department of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.
Shu-Leong HoDivision of Neurology, Department of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.
Binbin WangDepartment of Genetics, National Research Institute for Family Planning, Beijing, China.
Maria-Mercedes Garcia-BarceloDepartment of Surgery, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.
Paul Kwong-Hang TamDepartment of Surgery, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.
Stacey S ChernySchool of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Mulin Jun LiThe Province and Ministry Co-sponsored Collaborative Innovation Center for Medical Epigenetics, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China.
Pak Chung ShamThe Centre for PanorOmic Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.
Miaoxin LiProgram in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine and The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4733-0109
Chinese University of Hong Kong · HKSun Yat-sen University · CNMacau University of Science and Technology · MOTel Aviv University · IL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identifying rare variants that contribute to complex diseases is challenging because of the low statistical power in current tests comparing cases with controls. Here, we propose a novel and powerful rare variants association test based on the deviation of the observed mutation burden of a gene in cases from a baseline predicted by a weighted recursive truncated negative-binomial regression (RUNNER) on genomic features available from public data. Simulation studies show that RUNNER is substantially more powerful than state-of-the-art rare variant association tests and has reasonable type 1 error rates even for stratified populations or in small samples. Applied to real case-control data, RUNNER recapitulates known genes of Hirschsprung disease and Alzheimer's disease missed by current methods and detects promising new candidate genes for both disorders. In a case-only study, RUNNER successfully detected a known causal gene of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The present study provides a powerful and robust method to identify susceptibility genes with rare risk variants for complex diseases.

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Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenetic VariationModels, GeneticSoftwareCase-Control StudiesComputer SimulationHumansMutation

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PMID34931221
PMCPMC8989543
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