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- Title
An efficient hierarchical generalized linear mixed model for pathway analysis of genome-wide association studies.
- Authors
Wang, Lily; Jia, Peilin; Wolfinger, Russell D; Chen, Xi; Grayson, Britney L; Aune, Thomas M; Zhao, Zhongming
- Abstract
In genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of complex diseases, genetic variants having real but weak associations often fail to be detected at the stringent genome-wide significance level. Pathway analysis, which tests disease association with combined association signals from a group of variants in the same pathway, has become increasingly popular. However, because of the complexities in genetic data and the large sample sizes in typical GWAS, pathway analysis remains to be challenging. We propose a new statistical model for pathway analysis of GWAS. This model includes a fixed effects component that models mean disease association for a group of genes, and a random effects component that models how each gene's association with disease varies about the gene group mean, thus belongs to the class of mixed effects models.
- Publication
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2011, Vol 27, Issue 5, p686
- ISSN
1367-4811
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btq728