Title
PCA-based GRS analysis enhances the effectiveness for genetic correlation detection.
Abstract
Genetic risk score (GRS, also known as polygenic risk score) analysis is an increasingly popular method for exploring genetic architectures and relationships of complex diseases. However, complex diseases are usually measured by multiple correlated phenotypes. Analyzing each disease phenotype individually is likely to reduce statistical power due to multiple testing correction. In order to conquer the disadvantage, we proposed a principal component analysis (PCA)-based GRS analysis approach. Extensive simulation studies were conducted to compare the performance of PCA-based GRS analysis and traditional GRS analysis approach. Simulation results observed significantly improved performance of PCA-based GRS analysis compared to traditional GRS analysis under various scenarios. For the sake of verification, we also applied both PCA-based GRS analysis and traditional GRS analysis to a real Caucasian genome-wide association study (GWAS) data of bone geometry. Real data analysis results further confirmed the improved performance of PCA-based GRS analysis. Given that GWAS have flourished in the past decades, our approach may help researchers to explore the genetic architectures and relationships of complex diseases or traits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1093/bib/bby075
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
bioinformatics,principal component analysis,genetic risk score,correlation analysis,complex diseases
Data mining,Genetic correlation,Biology
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
6
1467-5463
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
18
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yan Zhao100.68
Yujie Ning200.68
Feng Zhang300.34
Miao Ding400.34
Yan Wen512.12
Liang Shi600.34
Kunpeng Wang711.03
Mengnan Lu800.34
Jingyan Sun900.34
Menglu Wu1000.34
Bolun Cheng1100.34
Mei Ma1201.01
Lu Zhang1301.01
Shiqiang Cheng1400.34
Hui Shen15233.79
Qing Tian1601.01
Xiong Guo1701.35
Hong-Wen Deng1832.41