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- Title
Variant-specific inflation factors for assessing population stratification at the phenotypic variance level.
- Authors
Sofer, Tamar; Zheng, Xiuwen; Laurie, Cecelia A.; Gogarten, Stephanie M.; Brody, Jennifer A.; Conomos, Matthew P.; Bis, Joshua C.; Thornton, Timothy A.; Szpiro, Adam; O'Connell, Jeffrey R.; Lange, Ethan M.; Gao, Yan; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Psaty, Bruce M.; NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium; Abe, Namiko; Abecasis, Gonçalo; Aguet, Francois; Albert, Christine; Almasy, Laura
- Abstract
In modern Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) epidemiological studies, participant-level data from multiple studies are often pooled and results are obtained from a single analysis. We consider the impact of differential phenotype variances by study, which we term 'variance stratification'. Unaccounted for, variance stratification can lead to both decreased statistical power, and increased false positives rates, depending on how allele frequencies, sample sizes, and phenotypic variances vary across the studies that are pooled. We develop a procedure to compute variant-specific inflation factors, and show how it can be used for diagnosis of genetic association analyses on pooled individual level data from multiple studies. We describe a WGS-appropriate analysis approach, implemented in freely-available software, which allows study-specific variances and thereby improves performance in practice. We illustrate the variance stratification problem, its solutions, and the proposed diagnostic procedure, in simulations and in data from the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine Whole Genome Sequencing Program (TOPMed), used in association tests for hemoglobin concentrations and BMI. Pooling participant-level genetic data into a single analysis can result in variance stratification, reducing statistical performance. Here, the authors develop variant-specific inflation factors to assess variance stratification and apply this to pooled individual-level data from whole genome sequencing.
- Subjects
PHENOTYPES; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing; PRICE inflation; STATISTICAL power analysis; INDIVIDUALIZED medicine; EXOMES
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-021-23655-2