Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods

The Korean Statistical Society (한국통계학회)
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Selection probability of multivariate regularization to identify pleiotropic variants in genetic association studies

  • Kim, Kipoong (Department of Statistics, Pusan National University) ;
  • Sun, Hokeun (Department of Statistics, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2020.04.26
  • Accepted : 2020.07.12
  • Published : 2020.09.30
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Abstract

In genetic association studies, pleiotropy is a phenomenon where a variant or a genetic region affects multiple traits or diseases. There have been many studies identifying cross-phenotype genetic associations. But, most of statistical approaches for detection of pleiotropy are based on individual tests where a single variant association with multiple traits is tested one at a time. These approaches fail to account for relations among correlated variants. Recently, multivariate regularization methods have been proposed to detect pleiotropy in analysis of high-dimensional genomic data. However, they suffer a problem of tuning parameter selection, which often results in either too many false positives or too small true positives. In this article, we applied selection probability to multivariate regularization methods in order to identify pleiotropic variants associated with multiple phenotypes. Selection probability was applied to individual elastic-net, unified elastic-net and multi-response elastic-net regularization methods. In simulation studies, selection performance of three multivariate regularization methods was evaluated when the total number of phenotypes, the number of phenotypes associated with a variant, and correlations among phenotypes are different. We also applied the regularization methods to a wild bean dataset consisting of 169,028 variants and 17 phenotypes.

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This work was supported by a 2-Year Research Grant of Pusan National University.

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