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Supplementary Material for: A Bayesian Partitioning Model for the Detection of Multilocus Effects in Case-Control Studies

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posted on 2015-06-03, 00:00 authored by Ray D., Li X., Pan W., Pankow J.S., Basu S.
Background: Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified hundreds of genetic variants associated with complex diseases, but these variants appear to explain very little of the disease heritability. The typical single-locus association analysis in a GWAS fails to detect variants with small effect sizes and to capture higher-order interaction among these variants. Multilocus association analysis provides a powerful alternative by jointly modeling the variants within a gene or a pathway and by reducing the burden of multiple hypothesis testing in a GWAS. Methods: Here, we propose a powerful and flexible dimension reduction approach to model multilocus association. We use a Bayesian partitioning model which clusters SNPs according to their direction of association, models higher-order interactions using a flexible scoring scheme and uses posterior marginal probabilities to detect association between the SNP set and the disease. Results: We illustrate our method using extensive simulation studies and applying it to detect multilocus interaction in Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) GWAS with type 2 diabetes. Conclusion: We demonstrate that our approach has better power to detect multilocus interactions than several existing approaches. When applied to the ARIC study dataset with 9,328 individuals to study gene-based associations for type 2 diabetes, our method identified some novel variants not detected by conventional single-locus association analyses.

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