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美国密歇根大学Seunggeun Lee、Wei Zhou等研究人员合作开发了一个可扩展的广义线性混合模型，可用于大型数据集的分析。2020年5月18日，《自然—遗传学》在线发表了这一成果。

Title: Scalable generalized linear mixed model for region-based association tests in large biobanks and cohorts

Author: Wei Zhou, Zhangchen Zhao, Jonas B. Nielsen, Lars G. Fritsche, Jonathon LeFaive, Sarah A. Gagliano Taliun, Wenjian Bi, Maiken E. Gabrielsen, Mark J. Daly, Benjamin M. Neale, Kristian Hveem, Goncalo R. Abecasis, Cristen J. Willer, Seunggeun Lee

Issue&Volume: 2020-05-18

Abstract: With very large sample sizes, biobanks provide an exciting opportunity to identify genetic components of complex traits. To analyze rare variants, region-based multiple-variant aggregate tests are commonly used to increase power for association tests. However, because of the substantial computational cost, existing region-based tests cannot analyze hundreds of thousands of samples while accounting for confounders such as population stratification and sample relatedness. Here we propose a scalable generalized mixed-model region-based association test, SAIGE-GENE, that is applicable to exome-wide and genome-wide region-based analysis for hundreds of thousands of samples and can account for unbalanced case–control ratios for binary traits. Through extensive simulation studies and analysis of the HUNT study with 69,716 Norwegian samples and the UK Biobank data with 408,910 White British samples, we show that SAIGE-GENE can efficiently analyze large-sample data (N>400,000) with type I error rates well controlled.

DOI: 10.1038/s41588-020-0621-6

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-020-0621-6

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