Abstract
Many complex diseases, such as psychiatric and behavioral disorders, are commonly characterized through various measurements that reflect physical, behavioral and psychological aspects of diseases. While it remains a great challenge to find a unified measurement to characterize a disease, the available multiple phenotypes can be analyzed jointly in the genetic association study. Simultaneously testing these phenotypes has many advantages, including considering different aspects of the disease in the analysis, and utilizing correlated phenotypes to improve the power of detecting disease-associated variants. Furthermore, complex diseases are likely caused by the interplay of multiple genetic variants through complicated mechanisms. Considering gene-gene interactions in the joint association analysis of complex diseases could further increase our ability to discover genetic variants involving complex disease pathways. In this article, we propose a stepwise U-test for joint association analysis of multiple loci and multiple phenotypes. Through simulations, we demonstrated that testing multiple phenotypes simultaneously could attain higher power than testing one single phenotype at a time, especially when there are shared genes contributing to multiple phenotypes. We also illustrated the proposed method with an application to Nicotine Dependence (ND), using datasets from the Study of Addition, Genetics and Environment (SAGE). The joint analysis of three ND phenotypes identified two SNPs, rs10508649 and rs2491397, and reached a nominal P-value of 3.79e-13. The association was further replicated in two independent datasets with P-values of 2.37e-05 and 7.46e-05.
Keywords: Pleiotropy, Nicotine dependence, Population-based association studies.
Current Genomics
Title:Detecting Gene-Gene Interactions Associated with Multiple Complex Traits with U-Statistics
Volume: 17 Issue: 5
Author(s): Ming Li, Changshuai Wei, Yalu Wen, Tong Wang and Qing Lu
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Keywords: Pleiotropy, Nicotine dependence, Population-based association studies.
Abstract: Many complex diseases, such as psychiatric and behavioral disorders, are commonly characterized through various measurements that reflect physical, behavioral and psychological aspects of diseases. While it remains a great challenge to find a unified measurement to characterize a disease, the available multiple phenotypes can be analyzed jointly in the genetic association study. Simultaneously testing these phenotypes has many advantages, including considering different aspects of the disease in the analysis, and utilizing correlated phenotypes to improve the power of detecting disease-associated variants. Furthermore, complex diseases are likely caused by the interplay of multiple genetic variants through complicated mechanisms. Considering gene-gene interactions in the joint association analysis of complex diseases could further increase our ability to discover genetic variants involving complex disease pathways. In this article, we propose a stepwise U-test for joint association analysis of multiple loci and multiple phenotypes. Through simulations, we demonstrated that testing multiple phenotypes simultaneously could attain higher power than testing one single phenotype at a time, especially when there are shared genes contributing to multiple phenotypes. We also illustrated the proposed method with an application to Nicotine Dependence (ND), using datasets from the Study of Addition, Genetics and Environment (SAGE). The joint analysis of three ND phenotypes identified two SNPs, rs10508649 and rs2491397, and reached a nominal P-value of 3.79e-13. The association was further replicated in two independent datasets with P-values of 2.37e-05 and 7.46e-05.
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Li Ming, Wei Changshuai, Wen Yalu, Wang Tong and Lu Qing, Detecting Gene-Gene Interactions Associated with Multiple Complex Traits with U-Statistics, Current Genomics 2016; 17 (5) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1389202917666160513100946
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1389202917666160513100946 |
Print ISSN 1389-2029 |
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