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A statistical framework for multi-trait rare variant analysis in large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies.

TitleA statistical framework for multi-trait rare variant analysis in large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2025
AuthorsLi, X, Chen, H, Selvaraj, MSunitha, Van Buren, E, Zhou, H, Wang, Y, Sun, R, McCaw, ZR, Yu, Z, Jiang, M-Z, DiCorpo, D, Gaynor, SM, Dey, R, Arnett, DK, Benjamin, EJ, Bis, JC, Blangero, J, Boerwinkle, E, Bowden, DW, Brody, JA, Cade, BE, Carson, AP, Carlson, JC, Chami, N, Chen, Y-DI, Curran, JE, de Vries, PS, Fornage, M, Franceschini, N, Freedman, BI, Gu, C, Heard-Costa, NL, He, J, Hou, L, Hung, Y-J, Irvin, MR, Kaplan, RC, Kardia, SLR, Kelly, TN, Konigsberg, I, Kooperberg, C, Kral, BG, Li, C, Li, Y, Lin, H, Liu, C-T, Loos, RJF, Mahaney, MC, Martin, LW, Mathias, RA, Mitchell, BD, Montasser, ME, Morrison, AC, Naseri, T, North, KE, Palmer, ND, Peyser, PA, Psaty, BM, Redline, S, Reiner, AP, Rich, SS, Sitlani, CM, Smith, JA, Taylor, KD, Tiwari, HK, Vasan, RS, Viali, S'itea, Wang, Z, Wessel, J, Yanek, LR, Yu, B, Dupuis, J, Meigs, JB, Auer, PL, Raffield, LM, Manning, AK, Rice, KM, Rotter, JI, Peloso, GM, Natarajan, P, Li, Z, Liu, Z, Lin, X
Corporate/Institutional AuthorsNHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium
JournalNat Comput Sci
Volume5
Issue2
Pagination125-143
Date Published2025 Feb
ISSN2662-8457
KeywordsGenetic Variation, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Lipids, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Whole Genome Sequencing
Abstract<p>Large-scale whole-genome sequencing (WGS) studies have improved our understanding of the contributions of coding and noncoding rare variants to complex human traits. Leveraging association effect sizes across multiple traits in WGS rare variant association analysis can improve statistical power over single-trait analysis, and also detect pleiotropic genes and regions. Existing multi-trait methods have limited ability to perform rare variant analysis of large-scale WGS data. We propose MultiSTAAR, a statistical framework and computationally scalable analytical pipeline for functionally informed multi-trait rare variant analysis in large-scale WGS studies. MultiSTAAR accounts for relatedness, population structure and correlation among phenotypes by jointly analyzing multiple traits, and further empowers rare variant association analysis by incorporating multiple functional annotations. We applied MultiSTAAR to jointly analyze three lipid traits in 61,838 multi-ethnic samples from the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Program. We discovered and replicated new associations with lipid traits missed by single-trait analysis.</p>
DOI10.1038/s43588-024-00764-8
Alternate JournalNat Comput Sci
PubMed ID39920506
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