Local exome sequences facilitate imputation of less common variants and increase power of genome wide association studies.
oleh: Peter K Joshi, James Prendergast, Ross M Fraser, Jennifer E Huffman, Veronique Vitart, Caroline Hayward, Ruth McQuillan, Dominik Glodzik, Ozren PolaĊĦek, Nicholas D Hastie, Igor Rudan, Harry Campbell, Alan F Wright, Chris S Haley, James F Wilson, Pau Navarro
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01 |
Deskripsi
The analysis of less common variants in genome-wide association studies promises to elucidate complex trait genetics but is hampered by low power to reliably detect association. We show that addition of population-specific exome sequence data to global reference data allows more accurate imputation, particularly of less common SNPs (minor allele frequency 1-10%) in two very different European populations. The imputation improvement corresponds to an increase in effective sample size of 28-38%, for SNPs with a minor allele frequency in the range 1-3%.