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ArticleCell reports methods2022

Connectivity in eQTL networks dictates reproducibility and genomic properties.

Sheila M Gaynor, Maud Fagny, Xihong Lin, John Platig, John Quackenbush

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Sheila M GaynorDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Maud FagnyDepartment of Biostatistics and Computational Biology and Center for Cancer Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Xihong LinDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
John PlatigDepartment of Biostatistics and Computational Biology and Center for Cancer Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
John QuackenbushDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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Unraveling the Complexities of Risk and Mechanism in CancerR35CA220523 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI QUACKENBUSH, JOHN · 2018 to 2024
$6.0M
Integrative analysis of lung disease genotypes and gene expressionF31HL138832 · NHLBI · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI GAYNOR, SHEILA · 2017 to 2017
$24k
NCI NIH HHS R35 CA220523NHLBI NIH HHS F31 HL138832
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analysis associates SNPs with gene expression; these relationships can be represented as a bipartite network with association strength as "edge weights" between SNPs and genes. However, most eQTL networks use binary edge weights based on thresholded FDR estimates: definitions that influence reproducibility and downstream analyses. We constructed twenty-nine tissue-specific eQTL networks using GTEx data and evaluated a comprehensive set of network specifications based on false discovery rates, test statistics, and p values, focusing on the degree centrality-a metric of an SNP or gene node's potential network influence. We found a thresholded Benjamini-Hochberg q value weighted by the Z-statistic balances metric reproducibility and computational efficiency. Our estimated gene degrees positively correlate with gene degrees in gene regulatory networks, demonstrating that these networks are complementary in understanding regulation. Gene degrees also correlate with genetic diversity, and heritability analyses show that highly connected nodes are enriched for tissue-relevant traits.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksQuantitative Trait LociGenomicsPhenotypeReproducibility of ResultseQTL analysiseQTL networksexpression quantitative trait locus analysisheritabilitynetwork metricsreproducibililty

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