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Analyzing Genome-Wide Association Studies with an FDR Controlling Modification of the Bayesian Information Criterion

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  • Erich Dolejsi
  • Bernhard Bodenstorfer
  • Florian Frommlet

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The prevailing method of analyzing GWAS data is still to test each marker individually, although from a statistical point of view it is quite obvious that in case of complex traits such single marker tests are not ideal. Recently several model selection approaches for GWAS have been suggested, most of them based on LASSO-type procedures. Here we will discuss an alternative model selection approach which is based on a modification of the Bayesian Information Criterion (mBIC2) which was previously shown to have certain asymptotic optimality properties in terms of minimizing the misclassification error. Heuristic search strategies are introduced which attempt to find the model which minimizes mBIC2, and which are efficient enough to allow the analysis of GWAS data. Our approach is implemented in a software package called MOSGWA. Its performance in case control GWAS is compared with the two algorithms HLASSO and d-GWASelect, as well as with single marker tests, where we performed a simulation study based on real SNP data from the POPRES sample. Our results show that MOSGWA performs slightly better than HLASSO, where specifically for more complex models MOSGWA is more powerful with only a slight increase in Type I error. On the other hand according to our simulations GWASelect does not at all control the type I error when used to automatically determine the number of important SNPs. We also reanalyze the GWAS data from the Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium and compare the findings of the different procedures, where MOSGWA detects for complex diseases a number of interesting SNPs which are not found by other methods.

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  • Erich Dolejsi & Bernhard Bodenstorfer & Florian Frommlet, 2014. "Analyzing Genome-Wide Association Studies with an FDR Controlling Modification of the Bayesian Information Criterion," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(7), pages 1-13, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0103322
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103322
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