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Genome-wide efficient mixed-model analysis for association studies
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Linear mixed models have attracted considerable attention recently as a powerful and effective tool for accounting for population stratification and relatedness in genetic association tests. However, existing methods for exact computation of standard test statistics are computationally impractical for even moderate-sized genome-wide association studies. To address this issue, several approximate methods have been proposed. Here, we present an efficient exact method, which we refer to as genome-wide efficient mixed-model association (GEMMA), that makes approximations unnecessary in many contexts. This method is approximately n times faster than the widely used exact method known as efficient mixed-model association (EMMA), where n is the sample size, making exact genome-wide association analysis computationally practical for large numbers of individuals.
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“To conduct marker-trait association tests, we tested for association at all variation with a minor allele frequency of at least 5%, using the program GEMMA version 0.94beta, which is a mixed model approach that corrects for sample relatedness and population stratification (Zhou and Stephens 2012).”
Loci associated with skin pigmentation identified in African populations
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A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa
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Fifteen new risk loci for coronary artery disease highlight arterial-wall-specific mechanisms
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Population genetics of the coral Acropora millepora : Toward genomic prediction of bleaching
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“Given these data from corals and their symbionts, we used a linear mixed model (LMM) to test for additive effects of SNPs (with minor allele frequencies >5%) on the quantilenormalized visual score (67, 68), including as covariates the top four principal components of environmental variables (which together account for…”
MethodSoftware for Genome‐Wide Association Studies in Autopolyploids and Its Application to Potato
Rosyara, U. R., Jong, W. S. D., Douches, D. S., & Endelman, J. B. (2016) · The Plant Genome · doi:10.3835/plantgenome2015.08.0073 · Cited by 311
“, 2010) and the availability of several software packages (Bradbury et al., 2007; Endelman, 2011; Zhou and Stephens, 2012; Lipka et al., 2012), the Q + K method is now the most widely used single-marker test for GWAS in diploid species.”
MethodA SUPER Powerful Method for Genome Wide Association Study
Wang, Q., Tian, F., Pan, Y., Buckler, E. S., & Zhang, Z. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107684 · Cited by 304
“FaST-LMM-Select performs better than EMMAX and GLM. SUPER performs better than FaST-LMM-Select (Figure 2b).”
MethodInfluentialEarle, S. G., Wu, C., Charlesworth, J., Stoesser, N. E., Gordon, N. C., Walker, T. M., Spencer, C. C. A., Iqbal, Z., Clifton, D. A., Hopkins, K. L., et al. (2016) · Nature Microbiology · doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.41 · Cited by 287
Tamba, C. L., Ni, Y.-L., & Zhang, Y. (2017) · PLoS Computational Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005357 · Cited by 290
Genetic mapping of quantitative trait loci in crops
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“[65] X. Zhou, P. Carbonetto, M. Stephens, Polygenic modeling with Bayesian sparse linear mixed models, PLoS Genet.”
MethodInfluentialThe gut microbiota is largely independent of host genetics in regulating fat deposition in chickens
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A single gene underlies the dynamic evolution of poplar sex determination
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Complex disease and phenotype mapping in the domestic dog
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Population structure in genetic studies: Confounding factors and mixed models
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“For example, many approaches have been developed to improve the efficiency of mixed models, including the methods Fast-LMM [17] and GEMMA [7].”
MethodThe variant call format provides efficient and robust storage of GWAS summary statistics
Lyon, M., Andrews, S. J., Elsworth, B., Gaunt, T. R., Hemani, G., & Marcora, E. M. (2021) · Genome biology · doi:10.1186/s13059-020-02248-0 · Cited by 260
Uganda Genome Resource Enables Insights into Population History and Genomic Discovery in Africa
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“Association testing was performed by a linear mixed model (GEMMA) [12], using estimated breeding values (EBVs) for daughter litter size as phenotypes.”
MethodGenome-Wide Association Studies of the Human Gut Microbiota
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The Genetic Architecture of Gene Expression in Peripheral Blood
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“We also conducted GEMMA (Zhou and Stephens, 2012) and its power is same as that of EMMA (results not shown). pLARmEB works better than all the other methods considered.”
MethodHeritable components of the human fecal microbiome are associated with visceral fat
Beaumont, M., Goodrich, J. K., Jackson, M. A., Yet, İ., Davenport, E., Vieira‐Silva, S., Debelius, J. W., Pallister, T., Mangino, M., Raes, J., et al. (2016) · Genome biology · doi:10.1186/s13059-016-1052-7 · Cited by 246
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“the MLM-based GWAS pipeline for each OTU using GEMMA [40].”
MethodThe allotetraploid origin and asymmetrical genome evolution of the common carp Cyprinus carpio
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Admixture facilitates genetic adaptations to high altitude in Tibet
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mrMLM v4.0.2: An R Platform for Multi-Locus Genome-Wide Association Studies
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“the aforementioned six methods and three current methods (GEMMA [5], FarmCPU [14], and EMMAX [4]).”
MethodInfluentialGPA: A Statistical Approach to Prioritizing GWAS Results by Integrating Pleiotropy and Annotation
Chung, D., Yang, C., Li, C., Gelernter, J. E., & Zhao, H. (2014) · PLoS Genetics · doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004787 · Cited by 225
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“This technique has been used in a number of seminal papers in the context of GWAS (Lippert, et al., 2011; Zhou and Stephens, 2012; Zhou and Stephens, 2014).”
MethodZhang, Y., Jia, Z., & Dunwell, J. M. (2019) · Frontiers in Plant Science · doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00100 · Cited by 227
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“We thus rely on the bugwas method [5], which uses the linear mixed model (LMM) implemented in the GEMMA library [58], to test for association with phenotypes while correcting for the population structure.”
MethodThe single-cell eQTLGen consortium
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Loss-of-function variants in ADCY3 increase risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes
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Population Stratification in Genetic Association Studies
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BackgroundGenomic Evidence for Complex Domestication History of the Cultivated Tomato in Latin America
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“Methods for kin-ship correction remain an active area of research (Zhou and Stephens 2012; Yang et al. 2014).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zhou, X., & Stephens, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- Zhou, Xiang
- Stephens, Matthew
- Venue
- Nature Genetics
- Published
- 2012-06-17
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 821-824
- ISSN
- 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1718
- PMC
- PMC3386377
- OpenAlex
- W1980168725
- Cited by
- 3,627
- References
- 19
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- FWCI
- 42.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
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- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (085475)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL092206, HL092206)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (R56HG002585, HG02585, R01HG002585)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Keywords
- genome-wide association study, linear mixed models, population stratification, relatedness, Gemma, Emma, computational efficiency, genetic association testing
- MeSH terms
- Computer Simulation, Humans, Models, Genetic, Software, Genome, Human, Linear Models, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Population Groups, Genome-Wide Association Study
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