Journal
GENETICS
Volume 209, Issue 1, Pages 89-103Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.118.300650
Keywords
multi-trait; mixture priors; genomic prediction; Bayesian regression; pleiotropy; GenPred; Shared data resources; Genomic Selection
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- United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative National Institute of Food and Agriculture Competitive [2015-67015-22947]
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Bayesian multiple-regression methods incorporating different mixture priors for marker effects are used widely in genomic prediction. Improvement in prediction accuracies from using those methods, such as BayesB, BayesC, and BayesC, have been shown in single-trait analyses with both simulated and real data. These methods have been extended to multi-trait analyses, but only under the restrictive assumption that a locus simultaneously affects all the traits or none of them. This assumption is not biologically meaningful, especially in multi-trait analyses involving many traits. In this paper, we develop and implement a more general multi-trait BayesC and BayesB methods allowing a broader range of mixture priors. Our methods allow a locus to affect any combination of traits, e.g., in a 5-trait analysis, the restrictive model only allows two situations, whereas ours allow all 32 situations. Further, we compare our methods to single-trait methods and the restrictive multi-trait formulation using real and simulated data. In the real data analysis, higher prediction accuracies were observed from both our new broad-based multi-trait methods and the restrictive formulation. The broad-based and restrictive multi-trait methods showed similar prediction accuracies. In the simulated data analysis, higher prediction accuracies to the restrictive method were observed from our general multi-trait methods for intermediate training population size. The software tool JWAS offers open-source routines to perform these analyses.
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