Post hoc Analysis for Detecting Individual Rare Variant Risk Associations Using Probit Regression Bayesian Variable Selection Methods in Caseâ Control Sequencing Studies
Larson, Nicholas B.; McDonnell, Shannon; Albright, Lisa Cannon; Teerlink, Craig; Stanford, Janet; Ostrander, Elaine A.; Isaacs, William B.; Xu, Jianfeng; Cooney, Kathleen A.; Lange, Ethan; Schleutker, Johanna; Carpten, John D.; Powell, Isaac; Bailey‐wilson, Joan; Cussenot, Olivier; Cancel‐tassin, Geraldine; Giles, Graham; MacInnis, Robert; Maier, Christiane; Whittemore, Alice S.; Hsieh, Chih‐lin; Wiklund, Fredrik; Catolona, William J.; Foulkes, William; Mandal, Diptasri; Eeles, Rosalind; Kote‐jarai, Zsofia; Ackerman, Michael J.; Olson, Timothy M.; Klein, Christopher J.; Thibodeau, Stephen N.; Schaid, Daniel J.
2016-09
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Larson, Nicholas B.; McDonnell, Shannon; Albright, Lisa Cannon; Teerlink, Craig; Stanford, Janet; Ostrander, Elaine A.; Isaacs, William B.; Xu, Jianfeng; Cooney, Kathleen A.; Lange, Ethan; Schleutker, Johanna; Carpten, John D.; Powell, Isaac; Bailey‐wilson, Joan ; Cussenot, Olivier; Cancel‐tassin, Geraldine ; Giles, Graham; MacInnis, Robert; Maier, Christiane; Whittemore, Alice S.; Hsieh, Chih‐lin ; Wiklund, Fredrik; Catolona, William J.; Foulkes, William; Mandal, Diptasri; Eeles, Rosalind; Kote‐jarai, Zsofia ; Ackerman, Michael J.; Olson, Timothy M.; Klein, Christopher J.; Thibodeau, Stephen N.; Schaid, Daniel J. (2016). "Post hoc Analysis for Detecting Individual Rare Variant Risk Associations Using Probit Regression Bayesian Variable Selection Methods in Caseâ Control Sequencing Studies." Genetic Epidemiology 40(6): 461-469.
Abstract
Rare variants (RVs) have been shown to be significant contributors to complex disease risk. By definition, these variants have very low minor allele frequencies and traditional singleâ marker methods for statistical analysis are underpowered for typical sequencing study sample sizes. Multimarker burdenâ type approaches attempt to identify aggregation of RVs across caseâ control status by analyzing relatively small partitions of the genome, such as genes. However, it is generally the case that the aggregative measure would be a mixture of causal and neutral variants, and these omnibus tests do not directly provide any indication of which RVs may be driving a given association. Recently, Bayesian variable selection approaches have been proposed to identify RV associations from a large set of RVs under consideration. Although these approaches have been shown to be powerful at detecting associations at the RV level, there are often computational limitations on the total quantity of RVs under consideration and compromises are necessary for largeâ scale application. Here, we propose a computationally efficient alternative formulation of this method using a probit regression approach specifically capable of simultaneously analyzing hundreds to thousands of RVs. We evaluate our approach to detect causal variation on simulated data and examine sensitivity and specificity in instances of high RV dimensionality as well as apply it to pathwayâ level RV analysis results from a prostate cancer (PC) risk caseâ control sequencing study. Finally, we discuss potential extensions and future directions of this work.Publisher
Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Clarendon Press
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0741-0395 1098-2272
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