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Genetic Diversity and Association Studies in US Hispanic/Latino Populations: Applications in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.

ABSTRACT: US Hispanic/Latino individuals are diverse in genetic ancestry, culture, and environmental exposures. Here, we characterized and controlled for this diversity in genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). We simultaneously estimated population-structure principal components (PCs) robust to familial relatedness and pairwise kinship coefficients (KCs) robust to population structure, admixture, and Hardy-Weinberg departures. The PCs revealed substantial genetic differentiation within and among six self-identified background groups (Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Mexican, and Central and South American). To control for variation among groups, we developed a multi-dimensional clustering method to define a "genetic-analysis group" variable that retains many properties of self-identified background while achieving substantially greater genetic homogeneity within groups and including participants with non-specific self-identification. In GWASs of 22 biomedical traits, we used a linear mixed model (LMM) including pairwise empirical KCs to account for familial relatedness, PCs for ancestry, and genetic-analysis groups for additional group-associated effects. Including the genetic-analysis group as a covariate accounted for significant trait variation in 8 of 22 traits, even after we fit 20 PCs. Additionally, genetic-analysis groups had significant heterogeneity of residual variance for 20 of 22 traits, and modeling this heteroscedasticity within the LMM reduced genomic inflation for 19 traits. Furthermore, fitting an LMM that utilized a genetic-analysis group rather than a self-identified background group achieved higher power to detect previously reported associations. We expect that the methods applied here will be useful in other studies with multiple ethnic groups, admixture, and relatedness.

SUBMITTER: Conomos MP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4716704 | biostudies-other | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Genetic Diversity and Association Studies in US Hispanic/Latino Populations: Applications in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.

Conomos Matthew P MP Laurie Cecelia A CA Stilp Adrienne M AM Gogarten Stephanie M SM McHugh Caitlin P CP Nelson Sarah C SC Sofer Tamar T Fernández-Rhodes Lindsay L Justice Anne E AE Graff Mariaelisa M Young Kristin L KL Seyerle Amanda A AA Avery Christy L CL Taylor Kent D KD Rotter Jerome I JI Talavera Gregory A GA Daviglus Martha L ML Wassertheil-Smoller Sylvia S Schneiderman Neil N Heiss Gerardo G Kaplan Robert C RC Franceschini Nora N Reiner Alex P AP Shaffer John R JR Barr R Graham RG Kerr Kathleen F KF Browning Sharon R SR Browning Brian L BL Weir Bruce S BS Avilés-Santa M Larissa ML Papanicolaou George J GJ Lumley Thomas T Szpiro Adam A AA North Kari E KE Rice Ken K Thornton Timothy A TA Laurie Cathy C CC

American journal of human genetics 20160101 1

US Hispanic/Latino individuals are diverse in genetic ancestry, culture, and environmental exposures. Here, we characterized and controlled for this diversity in genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). We simultaneously estimated population-structure principal components (PCs) robust to familial relatedness and pairwise kinship coefficients (KCs) robust to population structure, admixture, and Hardy-Weinberg departures. The PCs ...[more]

PMID: 26748518

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Genetic Diversity and Association Studies in US Hispanic/Latino Populations: Applications in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.

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