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BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 523-532Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv568
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- Medical Research Council [G1002319, MR/L19027/1]
- Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Programme Fellowship
- Wellcome Trust [083650/Z/07/Z]
- British Heart Foundation [FS/11/25/28740]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K030760/1]
- EPSRC [EP/K030760/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MR/M013138/1, MC_U120097112, MC_UP_0801/1, G1002319] Funding Source: UKRI
- British Heart Foundation [FS/11/25/28740] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K030760/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MC_U120097112, G1002319, MC_UP_0801/1, MR/M013138/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Motivation: Analysing the joint association between a large set of responses and predictors is a fundamental statistical task in integrative genomics, exemplified by numerous expression Quantitative Trait Loci (eQTL) studies. Of particular interest are the so-called 'hotspots', important genetic variants that regulate the expression of many genes. Recently, attention has focussed on whether eQTLs are common to several tissues, cell-types or, more generally, conditions or whether they are specific to a particular condition. Results: We have implemented MT-HESS, a Bayesian hierarchical model that analyses the association between a large set of predictors, e.g. SNPs, and many responses, e.g. gene expression, in multiple tissues, cells or conditions. Our Bayesian sparse regression algorithm goes beyond 'one-at-atime' association tests between SNPs and responses and uses a fully multivariate model search across all linear combinations of SNPs, coupled with a model of the correlation between condition/tissue-specific responses. In addition, we use a hierarchical structure to leverage shared information across different genes, thus improving the detection of hotspots. We show the increase of power resulting from our new approach in an extensive simulation study. Our analysis of two case studies highlights new hotspots that would remain undetected by standard approaches and shows how greater prediction power can be achieved when several tissues are jointly considered.
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