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  • Genomics
  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics

Background:

  • Simultaneous analysis of multiple phenotypes is crucial for understanding complex disorders and shared etiologies.
  • Existing methods face challenges with outcomes on different scales or mixed data types (continuous, binary, missing).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a robust statistical technique for identifying multiple regulators associated with diverse outcomes.
  • To address challenges posed by heterogeneous outcome scales and data types in large-scale studies.

Main Methods:

  • A novel estimation technique is proposed to standardize effect sizes across different outcome scales.
  • Sparsity is induced on estimated effects, and asymptotic properties are derived.
  • Resampling methods are utilized for finite-sample uncertainty quantification.
  • A tailored multiple testing procedure is developed to control the familywise error rate.

Main Results:

  • The proposed estimator demonstrates improved bias reduction and enhanced testing power compared to unregularized methods.
  • Asymptotic results provide theoretical guarantees for the estimator's performance.
  • The multiple testing procedure effectively controls the familywise error rate as sample size increases.

Conclusions:

  • The developed statistical framework offers a powerful and flexible approach for multi-phenotype analysis in genomics and epidemiology.
  • This method enhances the ability to identify shared predictors and understand the etiology of complex, related disorders.