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在有缺失数据的相关性研究中同时鉴别SNP

Simultaneous SNP identification in association studies with missing data

Zhen Li, Vikneswaran Gopal, Xiaobo Li, John M. Davis, George Casella

摘要:

关联测试旨在发现基因型(通常是单核苷酸多态性或SNP)和表型(属性或性状)之间的潜在关系。关联测试中使用的典型大型数据集通常包含缺失值。标准的统计方法要么使用相对简单的假设来估算缺失值,要么删除它们,或者两者兼而有之,这可能会产生有偏差的结果。在这里,我们描述了贝叶斯分层模型BAMD(贝叶斯协会与缺失数据)。BAMD是一种Gibbs抽样器,其中缺失值基于数据集中的所有可用信息进行多重插补。我们估计的参数,并证明,更新一个SNP在每一次迭代保持遍历性的马尔可夫链,并在同一时间提高计算速度。我们还在BAMD中实现了模型选择选项,这使得能够潜在地检测SNP相互作用。模拟结果表明,SNP效应的无偏估计可以在缺失基因型数据的情况下恢复。此外,我们验证了以前使用基于家族的方法报道的SNP和碳同位素辨别表型之间的关联,并发现了与该性状相关的额外SNP。BAMD作为R包可从http://cran.r-project.org/package=BAMD获得

英文摘要:

Association testing aims to discover the underlying relationship between genotypes (usually Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, or SNPs) and phenotypes (attributes, or traits). The typically large data sets used in association testing often contain missing values. Standard statistical methods either impute the missing values using relatively simple assumptions, or delete them, or both, which can generate biased results. Here we describe the Bayesian hierarchical model BAMD (Bayesian Association with Missing Data). BAMD is a Gibbs sampler, in which missing values are multiply imputed based upon all of the available information in the data set. We estimate the parameters and prove that updating one SNP at each iteration preserves the ergodic property of the Markov chain, and at the same time improves computational speed. We also implement a model selection option in BAMD, which enables potential detection of SNP interactions. Simulations show that unbiased estimates of SNP effects are recovered with missing genotype data. Also, we validate associations between SNPs and a carbon isotope discrimination phenotype that were previously reported using a family based method, and discover an additional SNP associated with the trait. BAMD is available as an R-package from http://cran.r-project.org/package=BAMD

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