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Article: A knowledge-based weighting framework to boost the power of genome-wide association studies

TitleA knowledge-based weighting framework to boost the power of genome-wide association studies
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Issue Date2010
PublisherPublic Library of Science. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.plosone.org/home.action
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Plos One, 2010, v. 5 n. 12 How to Cite?
AbstractBackground: We are moving to second-wave analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), characterized by comprehensive bioinformatical and statistical evaluation of genetic associations. Existing biological knowledge is very valuable for GWAS, which may help improve their detection power particularly for disease susceptibility loci of moderate effect size. However, a challenging question is how to utilize available resources that are very heterogeneous to quantitatively evaluate the statistic significances. Methodology/Principal Findings: We present a novel knowledge-based weighting framework to boost power of the GWAS and insightfully strengthen their explorative performance for follow-up replication and deep sequencing. Built upon diverse integrated biological knowledge, this framework directly models both the prior functional information and the association significances emerging from GWAS to optimally highlight single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for subsequent replication. In the theoretical calculation and computer simulation, it shows great potential to achieve extra over 15% power to identify an association signal of moderate strength or to use hundreds of whole-genome subjects fewer to approach similar power. In a case study on late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD) for a proof of principle, it highlighted some genes, which showed positive association with LOAD in previous independent studies, and two important LOAD related pathways. These genes and pathways could be originally ignored due to involved SNPs only having moderate association significance. Conclusions/Significance: With user-friendly implementation in an open-source Java package, this powerful framework will provide an important complementary solution to identify more true susceptibility loci with modest or even small effect size in current GWAS for complex diseases. © 2010 Li et al.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/135018
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2023 Impact Factor: 2.9
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.839
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Research Grant Council of Hong KongHKU7688/05M
HKU7752/08M
Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Diseases (RFCID)08070652
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This work was supported by the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong (HKU7688/05M and HKU7752/08M, YQS) and the Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Diseases (RFCID) (no. 08070652, YQS). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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dc.contributor.authorLi, MXen_HK
dc.contributor.authorSham, PCen_HK
dc.contributor.authorCherny, SSen_HK
dc.contributor.authorSong, YQen_HK
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dc.date.issued2010en_HK
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dc.identifier.issn1932-6203en_HK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/135018-
dc.description.abstractBackground: We are moving to second-wave analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), characterized by comprehensive bioinformatical and statistical evaluation of genetic associations. Existing biological knowledge is very valuable for GWAS, which may help improve their detection power particularly for disease susceptibility loci of moderate effect size. However, a challenging question is how to utilize available resources that are very heterogeneous to quantitatively evaluate the statistic significances. Methodology/Principal Findings: We present a novel knowledge-based weighting framework to boost power of the GWAS and insightfully strengthen their explorative performance for follow-up replication and deep sequencing. Built upon diverse integrated biological knowledge, this framework directly models both the prior functional information and the association significances emerging from GWAS to optimally highlight single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for subsequent replication. In the theoretical calculation and computer simulation, it shows great potential to achieve extra over 15% power to identify an association signal of moderate strength or to use hundreds of whole-genome subjects fewer to approach similar power. In a case study on late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD) for a proof of principle, it highlighted some genes, which showed positive association with LOAD in previous independent studies, and two important LOAD related pathways. These genes and pathways could be originally ignored due to involved SNPs only having moderate association significance. Conclusions/Significance: With user-friendly implementation in an open-source Java package, this powerful framework will provide an important complementary solution to identify more true susceptibility loci with modest or even small effect size in current GWAS for complex diseases. © 2010 Li et al.en_HK
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.plosone.org/home.actionen_HK
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dc.subject.meshAlzheimer Disease - genetics-
dc.subject.meshBinding Sites-
dc.subject.meshComputational Biology - methods-
dc.subject.meshGenome-Wide Association Study-
dc.subject.meshPolymorphism, Single Nucleotide-
dc.titleA knowledge-based weighting framework to boost the power of genome-wide association studiesen_HK
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