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  • Genetics
  • Population Genetics
  • Statistical Genetics

Background:

  • Identifying genetic variants for complex traits is challenging due to linkage disequilibrium (LD) and population stratification.
  • Current methods like principal component analysis and linear mixed models often fail to detect genuine associations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel method, CluStrat, for correcting complex population structures in genetic association studies.
  • To leverage LD-induced distances for improved variant detection.

Main Methods:

  • CluStrat employs agglomerative hierarchical clustering using the Mahalanobis distance covariance matrix of genetic markers.
  • This approach utilizes LD-induced distances to capture marker interactions within populations.

Main Results:

  • CluStrat outperforms existing methods in detecting true causal variants in simulation studies.
  • Biologically relevant associations were identified for Schizophrenia and Myocardial Infarction in human cohorts (WTCCC2, UK Biobank).
  • The method successfully corrected for population structure in the polygenic adaptation of height in Europeans.

Conclusions:

  • CluStrat demonstrates the effectiveness of using biologically relevant distance metrics like Mahalanobis distance.
  • Mahalanobis distance better captures cryptic population interactions in the presence of LD compared to Euclidean distance.