FastEpistasis: a high performance computing solution for quantitative trait epistasis
| Autor: | Karen Kapur, Sven Bergmann, Thierry Schüpbach, Ioannis Xenarios |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Statistics and Probability
Quantitative Trait Loci Population Genome-wide association study Genomics Single-nucleotide polymorphism Computational biology Quantitative trait locus Biology Computing Methodologies Polymorphism Single Nucleotide Biochemistry 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans education Molecular Biology 030304 developmental biology Genetic association Genetics 0303 health sciences education.field_of_study Epistasis Genetic/genetics Genome-Wide Association Study Genomics/methods Phenotype Software Genetics and Population Analysis Epistasis Genetic Genetic architecture Computer Science Applications Applications Note Computational Mathematics Computational Theory and Mathematics Epistasis 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Bioinformatics, vol. 26, no. 11, pp. 1468-1469 Bioinformatics |
| Popis: | Motivation: Genome-wide association studies have become widely used tools to study effects of genetic variants on complex diseases. While it is of great interest to extend existing analysis methods by considering interaction effects between pairs of loci, the large number of possible tests presents a significant computational challenge. The number of computations is further multiplied in the study of gene expression quantitative trait mapping, in which tests are performed for thousands of gene phenotypes simultaneously. Results: We present FastEpistasis, an efficient parallel solution extending the PLINK epistasis module, designed to test for epistasis effects when analyzing continuous phenotypes. Our results show that the algorithm scales with the number of processors and offers a reduction in computation time when several phenotypes are analyzed simultaneously. FastEpistasis is capable of testing the association of a continuous trait with all single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) pairs from 500 000 SNPs, totaling 125 billion tests, in a population of 5000 individuals in 29, 4 or 0.5 days using 8, 64 or 512 processors. Availability: FastEpistasis is open source and available free of charge only for non-commercial users from http://www.vital-it.ch/software/FastEpistasis Contact: karen.kapur@unil.ch Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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