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A pathway analysis method for genome-wide association studies.

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The hierarchical Bayesian model takes the uncertainty regarding the pathway predictions into account while assessing the significance of pathways, and is applied to two independent studies on type 2 diabetes and shows that the overlap between the results from the two studies is statistically significant.
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For genome-wide association studies, we propose a new method for identifying significant biological pathways. In this approach, we aggregate data across single-nucleotide polymorphisms to obtain summary measures at the gene level. We then use a hierarchical Bayesian model, which takes the gene-level summary measures as data, in order to evaluate the relevance of each pathway to an outcome of interest (e.g., disease status). Although shifting the focus of analysis from individual genes to pathways has proven to improve the statistical power and provide more robust results, such methods tend to eliminate a large number of genes whose pathways are unknown. For these genes, we propose to use a Bayesian multinomial logit model to predict the associated pathways by using the genes with known pathways as the training data. Our hierarchical Bayesian model takes the uncertainty regarding the pathway predictions into account while assessing the significance of pathways. We apply our method to two independent studies on type 2 diabetes and show that the overlap between the results from the two studies is statistically significant. We also evaluate our approach on the basis of simulated data. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

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- 07 Jun 2007 - 
TL;DR: This study has demonstrated that careful use of a shared control group represents a safe and effective approach to GWA analyses of multiple disease phenotypes; generated a genome-wide genotype database for future studies of common diseases in the British population; and shown that, provided individuals with non-European ancestry are excluded, the extent of population stratification in theBritish population is generally modest.
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