Robust methods for population stratification in genome wide association studies
| Autor: | Li Liu, Hong Liu, Christopher Arendt, Donghui Zhang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Population
Biology Population structure computer.software_genre Population stratification 01 natural sciences Biochemistry Stratification (mathematics) Arthritis Rheumatoid 010104 statistics & probability 03 medical and health sciences Gene Frequency Structural Biology Outlier detection Cluster Analysis Humans Resampling by half means Multidimensional scaling 0101 mathematics Spurious relationship Robust principal component analysis Molecular Biology 030304 developmental biology Genetics Principal Component Analysis 0303 health sciences Methodology Article Applied Mathematics Computer Science Applications Logistic Models GWA studies Outlier Principal component analysis Anomaly detection Data mining computer Genome-Wide Association Study |
| Zdroj: | BMC Bioinformatics |
| ISSN: | 1471-2105 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2105-14-132 |
| Popis: | Background Genome-wide association studies can provide novel insights into diseases of interest, as well as to the responsiveness of an individual to specific treatments. In such studies, it is very important to correct for population stratification, which refers to allele frequency differences between cases and controls due to systematic ancestry differences. Population stratification can cause spurious associations if not adjusted properly. The principal component analysis (PCA) method has been relied upon as a highly useful methodology to adjust for population stratification in these types of large-scale studies. Recently, the linear mixed model (LMM) has also been proposed to account for family structure or cryptic relatedness. However, neither of these approaches may be optimal in properly correcting for sample structures in the presence of subject outliers. Results We propose to use robust PCA combined with k-medoids clustering to deal with population stratification. This approach can adjust for population stratification for both continuous and discrete populations with subject outliers, and it can be considered as an extension of the PCA method and the multidimensional scaling (MDS) method. Through simulation studies, we compare the performance of our proposed methods with several widely used stratification methods, including PCA and MDS. We show that subject outliers can greatly influence the analysis results from several existing methods, while our proposed robust population stratification methods perform very well for both discrete and admixed populations with subject outliers. We illustrate the new method using data from a rheumatoid arthritis study. Conclusions We demonstrate that subject outliers can greatly influence the analysis result in GWA studies, and propose robust methods for dealing with population stratification that outperform existing population stratification methods in the presence of subject outliers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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