title: Mixed modeling of meta-analysis P-values (MixMAP) suggests multiple novel gene loci for low density lipoprotein cholesterol.
abstract: Informing missing heritability for complex disease will likely require leveraging information across multiple SNPs within a gene region simultaneously to characterize gene and locus-level contributions to disease phenotypes. To this aim, we introduce a novel strategy, termed Mixed modeling of Meta-Analysis P-values (MixMAP), that draws on a principled statistical modeling framework and the vast array of summary data now available from genetic association studies, to test formally for locus level association. The primary inputs to this approach are: (a) single SNP level p-values for tests of association; and (b) the mapping of SNPs to genomic regions. The output of MixMAP is comprised of locus level estimates and tests of association. In application of MixMAP to summary data from the Global Lipids Gene Consortium, we suggest twelve new loci (PKN, FN1, UGT1A1, PPARG, DMDGH, PPARD, CDK6, VPS13B, GAD2, GAB2, APOH and NPC1) for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), a causal risk factor for cardiovascular disease and we also demonstrate the potential utility of MixMAP in small data settings. Overall, MixMAP offers novel and complementary information as compared to SNP-based analysis approaches and is straightforward to implement with existing open-source statistical software tools.
authors: Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. foulkes@schoolph.umass.edu
authors: Andrea S
authors: AS
authors: Foulkes
authors: Gregory J
authors: GJ
authors: Matthews
authors: Ujjwal
authors: U
authors: Das
authors: Jane F
authors: JF
authors: Ferguson
authors: Rongheng
authors: R
authors: Lin
authors: Muredach P
authors: MP
authors: Reilly
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000235:genetics; D008078:Cholesterol, LDL / Q000235:genetics*; D056426:Genetic Loci; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008055:Lipids / Q000235:genetics*; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
chemical_list: D008078:Cholesterol, LDL; D008055:Lipids
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