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Increasing power in association studies by using linkage disequilibrium structure and molecular function as prior information

Departments of Computer Science and Human Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA

The availability of various types of genomic data provides an opportunity to incorporate this data as prior information in genetic association studies. This information includes knowledge of linkage disequilibrium structure as well as which regions are likely to be involved in disease. In this paper, we present an approach for incorporating this information by revisiting how we perform multiple-hypothesis correction. In a traditional association study, in order to correct for multiple-hypothesis testing, the significance threshold at each marker, t, is set to control the total false-positive rate. In our framework, we vary the threshold at each marker t_i and use these thresholds to incorporate prior information. We present a numerical procedure for solving for thresholds that maximizes association study power using prior information. We also present the results of benchmark simulation experiments using the HapMap data, which demonstrate a significant increase in association study power under this framework. We provide a Web server for performing association studies using our method and provide thresholds optimized for the Affymetrix 500k and Illumina HumanHap 550 chips and demonstrate the application of our framework to the analysis of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium data.

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