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BIOINFORMATICS
卷 32, 期 13, 页码 1981-1989出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw052
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- Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology (HICT)
- Academy of Finland [257654, 288509, 251170, 259272, 251217, 255847]
- Sigrid Juselius Foundation
- EU FP7 projects ENGAGE [201413]
- Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research
- University of Oulu
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- BioSHaRE [261433]
- Biocentrum Helsinki
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [257654, 259272, 255847, 288509, 288509, 259272, 257654, 255847] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
- Medical Research Council [MC_UU_12013/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_UU_12013/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Motivation: A dominant approach to genetic association studies is to perform univariate tests between genotype-phenotype pairs. However, analyzing related traits together increases statistical power, and certain complex associations become detectable only when several variants are tested jointly. Currently, modest sample sizes of individual cohorts, and restricted availability of individual-level genotype-phenotype data across the cohorts limit conducting multivariate tests. Results: We introduce metaCCA, a computational framework for summary statistics-based analysis of a single or multiple studies that allows multivariate representation of both genotype and phenotype. It extends the statistical technique of canonical correlation analysis to the setting where original individual-level records are not available, and employs a covariance shrinkage algorithm to achieve robustness. Multivariate meta-analysis of two Finnish studies of nuclear magnetic resonance metabolomics by metaCCA, using standard univariate output from the program SNPTEST, shows an excellent agreement with the pooled individual-level analysis of original data. Motivated by strong multivariate signals in the lipid genes tested, we envision that multivariate association testing using metaCCA has a great potential to provide novel insights from already published summary statistics from high-throughput phenotyping technologies.
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