期刊
GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY
卷 40, 期 1, 页码 45-56出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21942
关键词
error control; false discovery rate; genetic association study; multiple phenotypes; multiple hypothesis testing
资金
- NHGRI NIH HHS [HG006695, R01 HG006695] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH101782, MH101782] Funding Source: Medline
The genetic basis of multiple phenotypes such as gene expression, metabolite levels, or imaging features is often investigated by testing a large collection of hypotheses, probing the existence of association between each of the traits and hundreds of thousands of genotyped variants. Appropriate multiplicity adjustment is crucial to guarantee replicability of findings, and the false discovery rate (FDR) is frequently adopted as a measure of global error. In the interest of interpretability, results are often summarized so that reporting focuses on variants discovered to be associated to some phenotypes. We show that applying FDR-controlling procedures on the entire collection of hypotheses fails to control the rate of false discovery of associated variants as well as the expected value of the average proportion of false discovery of phenotypes influenced by such variants. We propose a simple hierarchical testing procedure that allows control of both these error rates and provides a more reliable basis for the identification of variants with functional effects. We demonstrate the utility of this approach through simulation studies comparing various error rates and measures of power for genetic association studies of multiple traits. Finally, we apply the proposed method to identify genetic variants that impact flowering phenotypes in Arabidopsis thaliana, expanding the set of discoveries. Published 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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