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Genomic Control for Association Studies
Abstract
Summary. A dense set of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) covering the genome and an efficient method to assess SNP genotypes are expected to be available in the near future. An outstanding question is how to use these technologies efficiently to identify genes affecting liability to complex disorders. To achieve this goal, we propose a statistical method that has several optimal properties: It can be used with case‐control data and yet, like family‐based designs, controls for population heterogeneity; it is insensitive to the usual violations of model assumptions, such as cases failing to be strictly independent; and, by using Bayesian outlier methods, it circumvents the need for Bonferroni correction for multiple tests, leading to better performance in many settings while still constraining risk for false positives. The performance of our genomic control method is quite good for plausible effects of liability genes, which bodes well for future genetic analyses of complex disorders.
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“the conventional genomic inflation factor (lambda or λ used interchangeably below) is dependent on the expected number of true associations”
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“Because in a typical epigenome-wide association study (EWAS), it is expected that small effects from many CpGs might be associated with the phenotype, the genomic inflation factor would overestimate actual test-statistic inflation”
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“The genomic control inflation factor (λ) 11 was 1.037, suggesting little evidence for residual stratification.”
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“The most popular are genomic control (GC)21,22, principal component analysis (PCA)23 and linear mixed models24.”
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“The overall inflation of the results due to population stratification is negligible: a modified [7] genomic control factor [10] (see Text S1).”
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“Prior to the gene-based analyses all individual SNP P-values were corrected for the genomic inflation factor (λ; to normalise for unaccounted variation, due to factors such as population stratification; Devlin and Roeder, 1999).”
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“Residual stratification was further corrected at the meta-analytic level with study-specific genomic controls56”
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“For the discovery, we applied two rounds of genomic control corrections to each individual GWAS and the combined meta results, respectively 51.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Devlin, B., & Roeder, K.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Devlin, B.
- Roeder, Kathryn
- Venue
- Biometrics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1999-12
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 997-1004
- ISSN
- 0006-341X (ISSN-L)
- 1541-0420
- OpenAlex
- W2008047653
- Cited by
- 3,162
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 14.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Biometrics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Pittsburgh
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH 57881, P01MH056193, R01MH057881, NIMH 56193)
- 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 diversity and population structure
- Keywords
- genomic control, association studies, single nucleotide polymorphisms, case-control data, population heterogeneity, multiple testing correction, false positives, complex diseases, model assumption violation
- MeSH terms
- Bayes Theorem, Biometry, Genetic Techniques, Humans, Models, Genetic, Models, Statistical, Genome, Human, Case-Control Studies
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