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A Pathway Association Study Tool for GWAS Analyses of Metabolic Pathway Information
Published on: July 1, 2020
RegionScan: a comprehensive R package for region-level genome-wide association testing with integration and
Myriam Brossard1, Delnaz Roshandel2, Kexin Luo1
1Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Toronto, ON M5T 3L9, Canada.
Summary:
RegionScan is designed for scalable genome-wide association testing of both multiple-variant and single-variant region-level statistics, with visualization of the results. For detection of association under various regional architectures, it implements three classes of state-of-the-art region-level tests, including multiple-variant linear/logistic regression (with and without dimension reduction), a variance-component score test, and region-level minP tests. RegionScan also supports the analysis of multi-allelic variants and unbalanced binary phenotypes and is compatible with widely used variant call format (VCF) files for both genotyped and imputed variants. Association testing leverages linkage disequilibrium (LD) structure in pre-defined regions, for example, LD-adaptive regions obtained by genomic partitioning, and accommodates parallel processing to improve computational and memory efficiency. Detailed outputs (with allele frequencies, variant-LD bin assignment, single/joint variant effect estimates and region-level results) and utility functions are provided to assist comparison, visualization, and interpretation of results. Thus, RegionScan analysis offers valuable insights into region-level genetic architecture, which supports a wide range of potential applications.
Availability And Implementation:
RegionScan is freely available for download on GitHub (https://github.com/brossardMyriam/RegionScan).
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