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Improving power and accuracy of genome-wide association studies via a multi-locus mixed linear model methodology.

ABSTRACT: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been widely used in genetic dissection of complex traits. However, common methods are all based on a fixed-SNP-effect mixed linear model (MLM) and single marker analysis, such as efficient mixed model analysis (EMMA). These methods require Bonferroni correction for multiple tests, which often is too conservative when the number of markers is extremely large. To address this concern, we proposed a random-SNP-effect MLM (RMLM) and a multi-locus RMLM (MRMLM) for GWAS. The RMLM simply treats the SNP-effect as random, but it allows a modified Bonferroni correction to be used to calculate the threshold p value for significance tests. The MRMLM is a multi-locus model including markers selected from the RMLM method with a less stringent selection criterion. Due to the multi-locus nature, no multiple test correction is needed. Simulation studies show that the MRMLM is more powerful in QTN detection and more accurate in QTN effect estimation than the RMLM, which in turn is more powerful and accurate than the EMMA. To demonstrate the new methods, we analyzed six flowering time related traits in Arabidopsis thaliana and detected more genes than previous reported using the EMMA. Therefore, the MRMLM provides an alternative for multi-locus GWAS.

SUBMITTER: Wang SB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4726296 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Improving power and accuracy of genome-wide association studies via a multi-locus mixed linear model methodology.

Wang Shi-Bo SB Feng Jian-Ying JY Ren Wen-Long WL Huang Bo B Zhou Ling L Wen Yang-Jun YJ Zhang Jin J Dunwell Jim M JM Xu Shizhong S Zhang Yuan-Ming YM

Scientific reports 20160120

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been widely used in genetic dissection of complex traits. However, common methods are all based on a fixed-SNP-effect mixed linear model (MLM) and single marker analysis, such as efficient mixed model analysis (EMMA). These methods require Bonferroni correction for multiple tests, which often is too conservative when the number of markers is extremely large. To address this concern, we proposed a random-SNP-effect MLM (RMLM) and a multi-locus RMLM (MRM ...[more]

PMID: 26787347

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Project description:Although multi-parent populations (MPPs) integrate the advantages of linkage and association mapping populations in the genetic dissection of complex traits and especially combine genetic analysis with crop breeding, it is difficult to detect small-effect quantitative trait loci (QTL) for complex traits in multiparent advanced generation intercross (MAGIC), nested association mapping (NAM), and random-open-parent association mapping (ROAM) populations. To address this issue, here we proposed a multi-locus linear mixed model method, namely mppQTL, to detect QTLs, especially small-effect QTLs, in these MPPs. The new method includes two steps. The first is genome-wide scanning based on a single-locus linear mixed model; the P-values are obtained from likelihood-ratio test, the peaks of negative logarithm P-value curve are selected by group-lasso, and all the selected peaks are regarded as potential QTLs. In the second step, all the potential QTLs are placed on a multi-locus linear mixed model, all the effects are estimated using expectation-maximization empirical Bayes algorithm, and all the non-zero effect vectors are further evaluated via likelihood-ratio test for significant QTLs. In Monte Carlo simulation studies, the new method has higher power in QTL detection, lower false positive rate, lower mean absolute deviation for QTL position estimate, and lower mean squared error for the estimate of QTL size (r2) than existing methods because the new method increases the power of detecting small-effect QTLs. In real dataset analysis, the new method (19) identified five more known genes than the existing three methods (14). This study provides an effective method for detecting small-effect QTLs in any MPPs. Highlights • Although MPPs integrate the advantages of linkage and association mapping populations, it is difficult to detect small QTLs.• The mppQTL (new) method with two steps was proposed to detect small QTLs and validated by simulated and real data analysis.• The mppQTL software is available at GitHub (https://github.com/YuanmingZhang65/IIIVmrMLM).

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Improving power and accuracy of genome-wide association studies via a multi-locus mixed linear model methodology.

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Improving power and accuracy of genome-wide association studies via a multi-locus mixed linear model methodology.

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