Paper Info
Title
fcfdr: an R package to leverage continuous and binary functional genomic data in GWAS
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are limited in power to detect associations that exceed the stringent genome-wide significance threshold. This limitation can be alleviated by leveraging relevant auxiliary data, such as functional genomic data. Frameworks utilising the conditional false discovery rate have been developed for this purpose, and have been shown to increase power for GWAS discovery whilst controlling the false discovery rate. However, the methods are currently only applicable for continuous auxiliary data and cannot be used to leverage auxiliary data with a binary representation, such as whether SNPs are synonymous or non-synonymous, or whether they reside in regions of the genome with specific activity states. We describe an extension to the cFDR framework for binary auxiliary data, called “Binary cFDR”. We demonstrate FDR control of our method using detailed simulations, and show that Binary cFDR performs better than a comparator method in terms of sensitivity and FDR control. We introduce an all-encompassing user-oriented CRAN R package ( https://annahutch.github.io/fcfdr/ ; https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fcfdr/index.html ) and demonstrate its utility in an application to type 1 diabetes, where we identify additional genetic associations. Our all-encompassing R package, fcfdr, serves as a comprehensive toolkit to unite GWAS and functional genomic data in order to increase statistical power to detect genetic associations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1186/s12859-022-04838-0
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
GWAS, Functional genomics, Power, FDR, Multiple testing
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1471-2105
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anna Hutchinson100.68
James Liley200.34
Chris Wallace3175.37