A framework for detecting noncoding rare variant associations of large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies

Abstract Large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies have enabled analysis of noncoding rare variants’ (RVs) associations with complex human traits. Variant set analysis is a powerful approach to study RV association, and a key component of it is constructing RV sets for analysis. However, existing methods have limited ability to define analysis units in the noncoding genome. Furthermore, there is a lack of robust pipelines for comprehensive and scalable noncoding RV association analysis. Here we propose a computationally-efficient noncoding RV association-detection framework that uses STAAR (variant-set test for association using annotation information) to group noncoding variants in gene-centric analysis based on functional categories. We also propose SCANG (scan the genome)-STAAR, which uses dynamic window sizes and incorporates multiple functional annotations, in a non-gene-centric analysis. We furthermore develop STAARpipeline to perform flexible noncoding RV association analysis, including gene-centric analysis as well as fixed-window-based and dynamic-window-based non-gene-centric analysis. We apply STAARpipeline to identify noncoding RV sets associated with four quantitative lipid traits in 21,015 discovery samples from the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program and replicate several noncoding RV associations in an additional 9,123 TOPMed samples..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 12. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Zilin [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xihao [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Hufeng [VerfasserIn]
Gaynor, Sheila M. [VerfasserIn]
Selvaraj, Margaret S. [VerfasserIn]
Arapoglou, Theodore [VerfasserIn]
Quick, Corbin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yaowu [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Han [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Ryan [VerfasserIn]
Dey, Rounak [VerfasserIn]
Arnett, Donna K. [VerfasserIn]
Bielak, Lawrence F. [VerfasserIn]
Bis, Joshua C. [VerfasserIn]
Blackwell, Thomas W. [VerfasserIn]
Blangero, John [VerfasserIn]
Boerwinkle, Eric [VerfasserIn]
Bowden, Donald W. [VerfasserIn]
Brody, Jennifer A. [VerfasserIn]
Cade, Brian E. [VerfasserIn]
Conomos, Matthew P. [VerfasserIn]
Correa, Adolfo [VerfasserIn]
Cupples, L. Adrienne [VerfasserIn]
Curran, Joanne E. [VerfasserIn]
de Vries, Paul S. [VerfasserIn]
Duggirala, Ravindranath [VerfasserIn]
Freedman, Barry I. [VerfasserIn]
Göring, Harald H. H. [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Xiuqing [VerfasserIn]
Kalyani, Rita R. [VerfasserIn]
Kooperberg, Charles [VerfasserIn]
Kral, Brian G. [VerfasserIn]
Lange, Leslie A. [VerfasserIn]
Manichaikul, Ani [VerfasserIn]
Martin, Lisa W. [VerfasserIn]
Mitchell, Braxton D. [VerfasserIn]
Montasser, May E. [VerfasserIn]
Morrison, Alanna C. [VerfasserIn]
Naseri, Take [VerfasserIn]
O’Connell, Jeffrey R. [VerfasserIn]
Palmer, Nicholette D. [VerfasserIn]
Peyser, Patricia A. [VerfasserIn]
Psaty, Bruce M. [VerfasserIn]
Raffield, Laura M. [VerfasserIn]
Redline, Susan [VerfasserIn]
Reiner, Alexander P. [VerfasserIn]
Reupena, Muagututi‘a Sefuiva [VerfasserIn]
Rice, Kenneth M. [VerfasserIn]
Rich, Stephen S. [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Jennifer A. [VerfasserIn]
Taylor, Kent D. [VerfasserIn]
Vasan, Ramachandran S. [VerfasserIn]
Weeks, Daniel E. [VerfasserIn]
Wilson, James G. [VerfasserIn]
Yanek, Lisa R. [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Rotter, Jerome I. [VerfasserIn]
Willer, Christen J. [VerfasserIn]
Natarajan, Pradeep [VerfasserIn]
Peloso, Gina M. [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Xihong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2021.11.05.467531

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

XBI032971982