Title
TIGA: target illumination GWAS analytics
Abstract
Motivation: Genome-wide association studies can reveal important genotype-phenotype associations; however, data quality and interpretability issues must be addressed. For drug discovery scientists seeking to prioritize targets based on the available evidence, these issues go beyond the single study. Results: Here, we describe rational ranking, filtering and interpretation of inferred gene-trait associations and data aggregation across studies by leveraging existing curation and harmonization efforts. Each gene-trait association is evaluated for confidence, with scores derived solely from aggregated statistics, linking a protein-coding gene and phenotype. We propose a method for assessing confidence in gene-trait associations from evidence aggregated across studies, including a bibliometric assessment of scientific consensus based on the iCite relative citation ratio, and meanRank scores, to aggregate multivariate evidence. This method, intended for drug target hypothesis generation, scoring and ranking, has been implemented as an analytical pipeline, available as open source, with public datasets of results, and a web application designed for usability by drug discovery scientists. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1093/bioinformatics/btab427
BIOINFORMATICS
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
37
21
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1367-4803
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeremy J Yang111.69
Dhouha Grissa200.34
Christophe G Lambert300.34
Cristian G Bologa400.34
Stephen L. Mathias5364.80
Anna Waller611.03
David J. Wild741630.58
Lars Juhl Jensen82202137.56
Tudor I Oprea935946.89