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ArticleJournal of the American Statistical Association2022

Estimating and accounting for unobserved covariates in high-dimensional correlated data.

Chris McKennan, Dan Nicolae

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Article in Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Chris McKennanDepartment of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh.
Dan NicolaeDepartment of Statistics, University of Chicago.

Funding

Prenatal Origins of AsthmaR01HL129735 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BISGAARD, HANS, OBER, CAROLE · 2015 to 2018
$3.2M
Harnessing GTEx to Create Transcriptome Knowledge and Inform Disease BiologyR01MH101820 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI COX, NANCY J, NICOLAE, DAN LIVIU · 2013 to 2015
$2.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL129735NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH101820
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many high dimensional and high-throughput biological datasets have complex sample correlation structures, which include longitudinal and multiple tissue data, as well as data with multiple treatment conditions or related individuals. These data, as well as nearly all high-throughput 'omic' data, are influenced by technical and biological factors unknown to the researcher, which, if unaccounted for, can severely obfuscate estimation of and inference on the effects of interest. We therefore developed CBCV and CorrConf: provably accurate and computationally efficient methods to choose the number of and estimate latent confounding factors present in high dimensional data with correlated or nonexchangeable residuals. We demonstrate each method's superior performance compared to other state of the art methods by analyzing simulated multi-tissue gene expression data and identifying sex-associated DNA methylation sites in a real, longitudinal twin study.

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Batch effectscell-type heterogeneityconfoundingcorrelationmulti-tissueunwanted variation

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PMID35615339
PMCPMC9126075

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