期刊
GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY
卷 43, 期 4, 页码 365-372出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.22183
关键词
gene-based association tests; parametric bootstrap; sliding windows; SNPs; whole-exome sequencing studies; whole-genome sequencing studies
资金
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [R01GM047845]
- National Cancer Institute [P01CA142538]
- National Human Genome Research Institute [R01HG009974]
- NIH
Whole-exome sequencing (WES) and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) studies are underway to investigate the impact of genetic variants on complex diseases and traits. It is customary to perform single-variant association tests for common variants and region-based association tests for rare variants. The latter may target variants with similar or opposite effects, interrogate variants with different frequencies or different functional annotations, and examine a variety of regions. The large number of tests that are performed necessitates adjustment for multiple testing. The conventional Bonferroni correction is overly conservative as the test statistics are correlated. To address this challenge, we propose a simple and accurate method based on parametric bootstrap to assess genomewide significance. We show that the correlations of the test statistics are determined primarily by the genotypes, such that the same significance threshold can be used in different studies that share a common sequencing platform. We demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed method with WES data from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Exome Sequencing Project and WGS data from the 1000 Genomes Project. We recommend the p value of 5x10-9 as the genomewide significance threshold for testing all common and low-frequency variants (MAFs >= 0.1%) in the human genome.
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