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ArticleJournal of applied statistics2025

Pathway-based genetic association analysis for overdispersed count data.

Yang Liu

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Yang LiuDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA.

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Methods for Analyzing Cancer Somatic Mutation DataR01CA223498 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI HE, QIANCHUAN · 2018 to 2022
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NCI NIH HHS R01 CA223498
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Abstract

Overdispersion is a common phenomenon in genetic data, such as gene expression count data. In genetic association studies, it is important to investigate the association between a gene expression and a set of genetic variants from a pathway. However, existing approaches for pathway analysis are primarily designed for continuous and binary outcomes and are not applicable to overdispersed count data. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical approach to analyze the association between an overdispersed count response and a set of low-frequency genetic variants in negative binomial regression. We derive score-type test statistics for both fixed and random effects of genetic variants, and further introduce a novel procedure for efficiently combining these two statistics for global testing. Through simulation studies, we demonstrate that the proposed method tends to be more powerful than existing methods under a wide range of scenarios. Additionally, we apply the proposed method to a colorectal cancer study, demonstrating its power in identifying associations between gene expression and somatic mutations.

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association analysismixed effectsnegative binomial regressionOverdispersionsomatic mutations

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PMID40927354
PMCPMC12416034

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