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  • Statistical Genomics
  • Bioinformatics

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  • Longitudinal phenotypic data offers significant potential for genetic studies, enabling a deeper understanding of genetic variants and their covariates over time.
  • The Genetic Analysis Workshop 19 (GAW19) provided an opportunity to evaluate three distinct longitudinal analytical approaches for genetic association studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and assess three longitudinal analytical approaches applied to genome-wide association (GWA) and whole genome sequence (WGS) data.
  • To evaluate the utility of statistical models like generalized estimating equations (GEEs), latent class growth modeling (LCGM), linear mixed-effect (LME), and variance components (VC) in enhancing genetic signal for variant identification using repeated measurements.

Main Methods:

  • Genome-wide association (GWA) analysis using generalized estimating equations (GEE) on real phenotypic data for hypertension traits.
  • Linear mixed-effect (LME) modeling combined with latent class growth modeling (LCGM) to analyze systolic blood pressure (SBP) change trajectories.
  • Variance components (VC) modeling applied to whole genome sequence (WGS) data with simulated SBP phenotypes, comparing constrained versus unconstrained approaches.

Main Results:

  • The GEE-based GWA approach identified a significant locus, GRM7, associated with two hypertension-derived traits.
  • The LCGM and LME combined approach identified five SBP trajectories and a genome-wide significant locus near ATOX1.
  • The constrained VC approach using WGS demonstrated increased power for variants with moderate effects compared to the unconstrained method.

Conclusions:

  • Novel statistical methods and previously proposed techniques were tested under various conditions for longitudinal genetic association studies.
  • Appropriate application of these longitudinal approaches has the potential to increase statistical power and reduce trait heterogeneity and standard error in genetic studies.