Gene hunting with hidden Markov model knockoffs

Modern scientific studies often require the identification of a subset of explanatory variables. Several statistical methods have been developed to automate this task, and the framework of knockoffs has been proposed as a general solution for variable selection under rigorous Type I error control, without relying on strong modelling assumptions. In this paper, we extend the methodology of knockoffs to problems where the distribution of the covariates can be described by a hidden Markov model. We develop an exact and efficient algorithm to sample knockoff variables in this setting and then argue that, combined with the existing selective framework, this provides a natural and powerful tool for inference in genome-wide association studies with guaranteed false discovery rate control. We apply our method to datasets on Crohn's disease and some continuous phenotypes.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:106

Enthalten in:

Biometrika - 106(2019), 1 vom: 01. März, Seite 1-18

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sesia, M [VerfasserIn]
Sabatti, C [VerfasserIn]
Candès, E J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

False discovery rate
Genome-wide association study
Journal Article
Knockoff
Variable selection

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 19.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/biomet/asy033

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM294247343