M-DATA: A statistical approach to jointly analyzing de novo mutations for multiple traits.
Recent studies have demonstrated that multiple early-onset diseases have shared risk genes, based on findings from de novo mutations (DNMs). Therefore, we may leverage information from one trait to improve statistical power to identify genes for another trait. However, there are few methods that can...
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oai:doaj.org-article:9f7c4776473c43619a25895923adf4b32021-12-02T20:03:16ZM-DATA: A statistical approach to jointly analyzing de novo mutations for multiple traits.1553-73901553-740410.1371/journal.pgen.1009849https://doaj.org/article/9f7c4776473c43619a25895923adf4b32021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009849https://doaj.org/toc/1553-7390https://doaj.org/toc/1553-7404Recent studies have demonstrated that multiple early-onset diseases have shared risk genes, based on findings from de novo mutations (DNMs). Therefore, we may leverage information from one trait to improve statistical power to identify genes for another trait. However, there are few methods that can jointly analyze DNMs from multiple traits. In this study, we develop a framework called M-DATA (Multi-trait framework for De novo mutation Association Test with Annotations) to increase the statistical power of association analysis by integrating data from multiple correlated traits and their functional annotations. Using the number of DNMs from multiple diseases, we develop a method based on an Expectation-Maximization algorithm to both infer the degree of association between two diseases as well as to estimate the gene association probability for each disease. We apply our method to a case study of jointly analyzing data from congenital heart disease (CHD) and autism. Our method was able to identify 23 genes for CHD from joint analysis, including 12 novel genes, which is substantially more than single-trait analysis, leading to novel insights into CHD disease etiology.Yuhan XieMo LiWeilai DongWei JiangHongyu ZhaoPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleGeneticsQH426-470ENPLoS Genetics, Vol 17, Iss 11, p e1009849 (2021) |
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Recent studies have demonstrated that multiple early-onset diseases have shared risk genes, based on findings from de novo mutations (DNMs). Therefore, we may leverage information from one trait to improve statistical power to identify genes for another trait. However, there are few methods that can jointly analyze DNMs from multiple traits. In this study, we develop a framework called M-DATA (Multi-trait framework for De novo mutation Association Test with Annotations) to increase the statistical power of association analysis by integrating data from multiple correlated traits and their functional annotations. Using the number of DNMs from multiple diseases, we develop a method based on an Expectation-Maximization algorithm to both infer the degree of association between two diseases as well as to estimate the gene association probability for each disease. We apply our method to a case study of jointly analyzing data from congenital heart disease (CHD) and autism. Our method was able to identify 23 genes for CHD from joint analysis, including 12 novel genes, which is substantially more than single-trait analysis, leading to novel insights into CHD disease etiology. |
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M-DATA: A statistical approach to jointly analyzing de novo mutations for multiple traits. |
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M-DATA: A statistical approach to jointly analyzing de novo mutations for multiple traits. |
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M-DATA: A statistical approach to jointly analyzing de novo mutations for multiple traits. |
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M-DATA: A statistical approach to jointly analyzing de novo mutations for multiple traits. |
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M-DATA: A statistical approach to jointly analyzing de novo mutations for multiple traits. |
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m-data: a statistical approach to jointly analyzing de novo mutations for multiple traits. |
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