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Screening for Functional Non-coding Genetic Variants Using Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay (EMSA) and DNA-affinity Precipitation Assay (DAPA)
Published on: August 21, 2016
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies: no efficiency gain in using individual participant data
1Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, McGavran-Greenberg Hall, CB #7420, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7420, USA. lin@bios.unc.edu
Abstract:
To identify genetic variants with modest effects on complex human diseases, a growing number of networks or consortia are created for sharing data from multiple genome-wide association studies on the same disease or related disorders. A central question in this enterprise is whether to obtain summary results or individual participant data from relevant studies. We show theoretically and numerically that meta-analysis of summary results is statistically as efficient as joint analysis of individual participant data (provided that both analyses are performed properly under the same modeling assumptions). We illustrate this equivalence with case-control data from the Finland-United States Investigation of NIDDM Genetics (FUSION) study. Collating only summary results will increase the number and representativeness of available studies, simplify data collection and analysis, reduce resource utilization, and accelerate discovery.
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