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Cross‐trait prediction accuracy of summary statistics in genome‐wide association studies

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  • Bingxin Zhao
  • Fei Zou
  • Hongtu Zhu

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In the era of big data, univariate models have widely been used as a workhorse tool for quickly producing marginal estimators; and this is true even when in a high‐dimensional dense setting, in which many features are “true,” but weak signals. Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) epitomize this type of setting. Although the GWAS marginal estimator is popular, it has long been criticized for ignoring the correlation structure of genetic variants (i.e., the linkage disequilibrium [LD] pattern). In this paper, we study the effects of LD pattern on the GWAS marginal estimator and investigate whether or not additionally accounting for the LD can improve the prediction accuracy of complex traits. We consider a general high‐dimensional dense setting for GWAS and study a class of ridge‐type estimators, including the popular marginal estimator and the best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) estimator as two special cases. We show that the performance of GWAS marginal estimator depends on the LD pattern through the first three moments of its eigenvalue distribution. Furthermore, we uncover that the relative performance of GWAS marginal and BLUP estimators highly depends on the ratio of GWAS sample size over the number of genetic variants. Particularly, our finding reveals that the marginal estimator can easily become near‐optimal within this class when the sample size is relatively small, even though it ignores the LD pattern. On the other hand, BLUP estimator has substantially better performance than the marginal estimator as the sample size increases toward the number of genetic variants, which is typically in millions. Therefore, adjusting for the LD (such as in the BLUP) is most needed when GWAS sample size is large. We illustrate the importance of our results by using the simulated data and real GWAS.

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  • Bingxin Zhao & Fei Zou & Hongtu Zhu, 2023. "Cross‐trait prediction accuracy of summary statistics in genome‐wide association studies," Biometrics, The International Biometric Society, vol. 79(2), pages 841-853, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:biomet:v:79:y:2023:i:2:p:841-853
    DOI: 10.1111/biom.13661
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