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Multimarker analysis and imputation of multiple platform pooling-based genome-wide association studies
Nils Homer1, Waibhav D Tembe, Szabolcs Szelinger
1Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
|July 12, 2008
Summary
This study introduces a new multimarker analysis for pooling-based genome-wide association (GWA) studies. This method leverages genomic correlation to improve accuracy, reduce noise, and increase SNP coverage, offering a cost-effective approach for GWA studies.
Area of Science:
- Genetics
- Bioinformatics
- Statistical Genomics
Background:
- Genome-wide association (GWA) studies genotyping over one million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) offer marginal gains at high cost due to inherent redundancy in the human genome.
- Pooling-based GWA studies can potentially utilize this genomic redundancy to reduce noise, enhance observation accuracy, and expand genomic coverage.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce a novel multimarker, multi-loci analysis method for pooling-based GWA studies.
- To leverage the correlation structure between SNPs to increase the efficacy of pooling-based GWA studies.
- To develop a method for imputing association significance for unobserved SNPs.
Main Methods:
- Developed a measure of correlation between individual genotyping and pooling, analogous to r² for linkage disequilibrium (LD).
- Proposed a non-haplotype multimarker method utilizing SNP correlation structure.
- Evaluated the method through theoretical framework derivation, simulation studies comparing multimarker to single-marker analysis, and experimental validation on multiple microarray platforms (Illumina 450S Duo, Illumina 550K, Affymetrix 5.0) with HapMap individuals.
Main Results:
- Multimarker analysis effectively reduces noise inherent in pooling-based GWA studies.
- The method facilitates efficient integration of data from multiple microarray platforms.
- Provides more accurate measures of association significance compared to single-marker analysis.
- Enables imputation of association significance for SNPs not directly genotyped, using neighboring SNPs in LD.
Conclusions:
- The developed multimarker method offers a cost-effective solution for pooling-based GWA studies across over one million SNPs using multiple platforms.
- This approach enhances genomic coverage and accuracy by utilizing SNP correlation.
- The ability to impute association significance for neighboring SNPs addresses information loss due to pooling.
