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  • Genomics
  • Environmental Health

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  • Joint statistical models for multiple outcomes offer greater flexibility and power than single-outcome models.
  • Identifying specific exposures linked to particular outcomes (outcome-specific variable selection) is crucial in biomedical research.
  • Existing methods may not fully leverage the dependence among multiple outcomes or the variance-covariance structure.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel variable selection approach for multivariate normal responses.
  • To incorporate both mean model and variance-covariance structure information for enhanced analysis.
  • To improve the detection of covariate effects on specific outcomes by leveraging correlated outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a Bayesian method for variable selection in multivariate normal models.
  • Constructed a multivariate prior for variable selection indicators based on outcome variance-covariance.
  • Evaluated the approach using simulations to assess power and false discovery rates.

Main Results:

  • Simulations demonstrated that the proposed strategy boosts power to detect subtle effects without increasing false discoveries.
  • The method effectively pools evidence across correlated outcomes for more robust effect estimation.
  • Applied to Normative Aging Study (NAS) epigenetic data, it identified five genes in the asthma pathway associated with air pollution exposures.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed outcome-specific variable selection approach enhances statistical power in analyzing multiple correlated outcomes.
  • This method provides a robust framework for identifying environmental exposures associated with specific health outcomes, such as DNA methylation changes.
  • The findings highlight potential gene-specific methylation associations with traffic and particulate matter pollution relevant to asthma.