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ArticleNature communications2023

Fast kernel-based association testing of non-linear genetic effects for biobank-scale data.

Boyang Fu, Ali Pazokitoroudi, Mukund Sudarshan, Zhengtong Liu, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Sriram Sankararaman

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 2 countries.

Boyang FuDepartment of Computer Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. boyang1995@cs.ucla.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0082-8735
Ali PazokitoroudiDepartment of Computer Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2839-2291
Mukund SudarshanDepartment of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
Zhengtong LiuDepartment of Computer Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Lakshminarayanan SubramanianDepartment of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
Sriram SankararamanDepartment of Computer Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. sriram@cs.ucla.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1586-9641
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences · USUCLA Health · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Methods for Genome-wide Association Studies in Admixed PopulationsR01HG006399 · NHGRI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI PRICE, ALKES L · 2011 to 2024
$6.3M
Statistical Models for Dissecting Human Population Admixture and its Role in Evolution and DiseaseR35GM125055 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI SANKARARAMAN, SRIRAM · 2017 to 2021
$1.6M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG006399NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM125055
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our knowledge of non-linear genetic effects on complex traits remains limited, in part, due to the modest power to detect such effects. While kernel-based tests offer a versatile approach to test for non-linear relationships between sets of genetic variants and traits, current approaches cannot be applied to Biobank-scale datasets containing hundreds of thousands of individuals. We propose, FastKAST, a kernel-based approach that can test for non-linear effects of a set of variants on a quantitative trait. FastKAST provides calibrated hypothesis tests while enabling analysis of Biobank-scale datasets with hundreds of thousands of unrelated individuals from a homogeneous population. We apply FastKAST to 53 quantitative traits measured across ≈ 300 K unrelated white British individuals in the UK Biobank to detect sets of variants with non-linear effects at genome-wide significance.

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Biological Specimen BanksMultifactorial InheritanceGenomeGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansModels, GeneticPhenotypePolymorphism, Single Nucleotide

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PMID37582955
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