Bayesian variable selection regression for genome-wide association studies and other large-scale problems

Details Bayesian variable selection regression for genome-wide association studies and other large-scale problems Bayesian variable selection regression for genome-wide association studies and other large-scale problems

2011-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/1110.6019v1

Annals of Applied Statistics 2011, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1780-1815

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOAS455 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Ins

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10.1214/11-AOAS455

We consider applying Bayesian Variable Selection Regression, or BVSR, to genome-wide association studies and similar large-scale regression problems. Currently, typical genome-wide association studies measure hundreds of thousands, or millions, of genetic variants (SNPs), in thousands or tens of thousands of individuals, and attempt to identify regions harboring SNPs that affect some phenotype or outcome of interest. This goal can naturally be cast as a variable selection regression problem, with the SNPs as the covariates in the regression. Characteristic features of genome-wide association studies include the following: (i) a focus primarily on identifying relevant variables, rather than on prediction; and (ii) many relevant covariates may have tiny effects, making it effectively impossible to confidently identify the complete "correct" subset of variables. Taken together, these factors put a premium on having interpretable measures of confidence for individual covariates being included in the model, which we argue is a strength of BVSR compared with alternatives such as penalized regression methods. Here we focus primarily on analysis of quantitative phenotypes, and on appropriate prior specification for BVSR in this setting, emphasizing the idea of considering what the priors imply about the total proportion of variance in outcome explained by relevant covariates. We also emphasize the potential for BVSR to estimate this proportion of variance explained, and hence shed light on the issue of "missing heritability" in genome-wide association studies.

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