Article ; Online: Structure-informed clustering for population stratification in association studies.
2023 Volume 24, Issue 1, Page(s) 411
Abstract: Background: Identifying variants associated with complex traits is a challenging task in genetic association studies due to linkage disequilibrium (LD) between genetic variants and population stratification, unrelated to the disease risk. Existing ... ...
Abstract | Background: Identifying variants associated with complex traits is a challenging task in genetic association studies due to linkage disequilibrium (LD) between genetic variants and population stratification, unrelated to the disease risk. Existing methods of population structure correction use principal component analysis or linear mixed models with a random effect when modeling associations between a trait of interest and genetic markers. However, due to stringent significance thresholds and latent interactions between the markers, these methods often fail to detect genuinely associated variants. Results: To overcome this, we propose CluStrat, which corrects for complex arbitrarily structured populations while leveraging the linkage disequilibrium induced distances between genetic markers. It performs an agglomerative hierarchical clustering using the Mahalanobis distance covariance matrix of the markers. In simulation studies, we show that our method outperforms existing methods in detecting true causal variants. Applying CluStrat on WTCCC2 and UK Biobank cohorts, we found biologically relevant associations in Schizophrenia and Myocardial Infarction. CluStrat was also able to correct for population structure in polygenic adaptation of height in Europeans. Conclusions: CluStrat highlights the advantages of biologically relevant distance metrics, such as the Mahalanobis distance, which captures the cryptic interactions within populations in the presence of LD better than the Euclidean distance. |
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MeSH term(s) | Humans ; Genetic Markers ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ; Linkage Disequilibrium ; Phenotype ; Cluster Analysis |
Chemical Substances | Genetic Markers |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2023-10-31 |
Publishing country | England |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 2041484-5 |
ISSN | 1471-2105 ; 1471-2105 |
ISSN (online) | 1471-2105 |
ISSN | 1471-2105 |
DOI | 10.1186/s12859-023-05511-w |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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