A Bayesian linear mixed model for prediction of complex traits.
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ABSTRACT: Motivation
Accurate disease risk prediction is essential for precision medicine. Existing models either assume that diseases are caused by groups of predictors with small-to-moderate effects or a few isolated predictors with large effects. Their performance can be sensitive to the underlying disease mechanisms, which are usually unknown in advance.Results
We developed a Bayesian linear mixed model (BLMM), where genetic effects were modelled using a hybrid of the sparsity regression and linear mixed model with multiple random effects. The parameters in BLMM were inferred through a computationally efficient variational Bayes algorithm. The proposed method can resemble the shape of the true effect size distributions, captures the predictive effects from both common and rare variants, and is robust against various disease models. Through extensive simulations and the application to a whole-genome sequencing dataset obtained from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiatives, we have demonstrated that BLMM has better prediction performance than existing methods and can detect variables and/or genetic regions that are predictive.Availability
The R-package is available at https://github.com/yhai943/BLMM.Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
SUBMITTER: Hai Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8016495 | biostudies-literature |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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