Title
Leveraging functional annotations in genetic risk prediction for human complex diseases.
Abstract
Genetic risk prediction is an important goal in human genetics research and precision medicine. Accurate prediction models will have great impacts on both disease prevention and early treatment strategies. Despite the identification of thousands of disease-associated genetic variants through genome wide association studies (GWAS), genetic risk prediction accuracy remains moderate for most diseases, which is largely due to the challenges in both identifying all the functionally relevant variants and accurately estimating their effect sizes in the presence of linkage disequilibrium. In this paper, we introduce AnnoPred, a prin-cipled framework that leverages diverse types of genomic and epigenomic functional annotations in genetic risk prediction for complex diseases. AnnoPred is trained using GWAS summary statistics in a Bayesian framework in which we explicitly model various functional annotations and allow for linkage disequilibrium estimated from reference genotype data. Compared with state-of-the-art risk prediction methods, AnnoPred achieves consistently improved prediction accuracy in both extensive simulations and real data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005589
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Field
DocType
Volume
Genome,Annotation,Biology,Disease prevention,Genome-wide association study,Predictive modelling,Bioinformatics,Genetics
Journal
13
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
6
2
0.91
References 
Authors
1
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yiming Hu163944.91
Qiongshi Lu252.87
Ryan Powles320.91
Xinwei Yao452.19
Can Yang572643.12
Fang Fang620.91
Xinran Xu720.91
Hongyu Zhao885089.39