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Article: A unifying framework for evaluating the predictive power of genetic variants based on the level of heritability explained

TitleA unifying framework for evaluating the predictive power of genetic variants based on the level of heritability explained
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Issue Date2010
PublisherPublic Library of Science. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.plosgenetics.org/
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Plos Genetics, 2010, v. 6 n. 12, p. 1-13 How to Cite?
AbstractAn increasing number of genetic variants have been identified for many complex diseases. However, it is controversial whether risk prediction based on genomic profiles will be useful clinically. Appropriate statistical measures to evaluate the performance of genetic risk prediction models are required. Previous studies have mainly focused on the use of the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, or AUC, to judge the predictive value of genetic tests. However, AUC has its limitations and should be complemented by other measures. In this study, we develop a novel unifying statistical framework that connects a large variety of predictive indices together. We showed that, given the overall disease probability and the level of variance in total liability (or heritability) explained by the genetic variants, we can estimate analytically a large variety of prediction metrics, for example the AUC, the mean risk difference between cases and noncases, the net reclassification improvement (ability to reclassify people into high- and low-risk categories), the proportion of cases explained by a specific percentile of population at the highest risk, the variance of predicted risks, and the risk at any percentile. We also demonstrate how to construct graphs to visualize the performance of risk models, such as the ROC curve, the density of risks, and the predictiveness curve (disease risk plotted against risk percentile). The results from simulations match very well with our theoretical estimates. Finally we apply the methodology to nine complex diseases, evaluating the predictive power of genetic tests based on known susceptibility variants for each trait. © 2010 So, Sham.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/137515
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2014 Impact Factor: 7.528
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.219
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Hong Kong Research Grants CouncilHKU 766906M
HKU 774707M
Croucher Foundation
University of Hong Kong
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The work was supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund grants HKU 766906M and HKU 774707M and by the University of Hong Kong Strategic Research Theme of Genomics. H-CS was supported by a Croucher Foundation Scholarship. 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.description.abstractAn increasing number of genetic variants have been identified for many complex diseases. However, it is controversial whether risk prediction based on genomic profiles will be useful clinically. Appropriate statistical measures to evaluate the performance of genetic risk prediction models are required. Previous studies have mainly focused on the use of the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, or AUC, to judge the predictive value of genetic tests. However, AUC has its limitations and should be complemented by other measures. In this study, we develop a novel unifying statistical framework that connects a large variety of predictive indices together. We showed that, given the overall disease probability and the level of variance in total liability (or heritability) explained by the genetic variants, we can estimate analytically a large variety of prediction metrics, for example the AUC, the mean risk difference between cases and noncases, the net reclassification improvement (ability to reclassify people into high- and low-risk categories), the proportion of cases explained by a specific percentile of population at the highest risk, the variance of predicted risks, and the risk at any percentile. We also demonstrate how to construct graphs to visualize the performance of risk models, such as the ROC curve, the density of risks, and the predictiveness curve (disease risk plotted against risk percentile). The results from simulations match very well with our theoretical estimates. Finally we apply the methodology to nine complex diseases, evaluating the predictive power of genetic tests based on known susceptibility variants for each trait. © 2010 So, Sham.en_HK
dc.languageengen_US
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dc.subject.meshBiostatistics-
dc.subject.meshGenetic Predisposition to Disease-
dc.subject.meshGenetic Testing - statistics and numerical data-
dc.subject.meshGenetic Variation-
dc.subject.meshModels, Statistical-
dc.titleA unifying framework for evaluating the predictive power of genetic variants based on the level of heritability explaineden_HK
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