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Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) face unique challenges in the era of big genomics data, particularly when dealing with ultra-high-dimensional datasets where the number of genetic features significantly exceeds the available samples.…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-27 Kexuan Li

In high-dimensional data settings, additional information on the features is often available. Examples of such external information in omics research are: (a) p-values from a previous study, (b) a summary of prior information, and (c) omics…

Traditional GWAS has advanced our understanding of complex diseases but often misses nonlinear genetic interactions. Deep learning offers new opportunities to capture complex genomic patterns, yet existing methods mostly depend on feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Iqra Farooq , Sara Atito , Ayse Demirkan , Inga Prokopenko , Muhammad Rana

Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) help identify genetic variations in people with diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD), which are less common in those without the disease. Thus, GWAS data can be used to identify genetic variations…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-07 Ali Amelia , Lourdes Pena-Castillo , Hamid Usefi

Bayesian networks, with structure given by a directed acyclic graph (DAG), are a popular class of graphical models. However, learning Bayesian networks from discrete or categorical data is particularly challenging, due to the large…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-06 Jiaying Gu , Fei Fu , Qing Zhou

Reproducibility in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is crucial for ensuring reliable genomic research outcomes. However, limited access to original genomic datasets (mainly due to privacy concerns) prevents researchers from…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-19 Yuzhou Jiang , Erman Ayday

In this study, we consider the problem of variable selection and estimation in high-dimensional linear regression models when the complete data are not accessible, but only certain marginal information or summary statistics are available.…

Applications · Statistics 2018-05-04 Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Jin Liu , Can Yang

LASSO regularized logistic regression is particularly useful for its built-in feature selection, allowing coefficients to be removed from deployment and producing sparse solutions. Differentially private versions of LASSO logistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Amol Khanna , Fred Lu , Edward Raff , Brian Testa

Penalized generalized estimating equations with Elastic Net or L2-Smoothly Clipped Absolute Deviation penalization are proposed to simultaneously select the most important variables and estimate their effects for longitudinal Gaussian data…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-11-26 Adriaan Blommaert , Niel Hens , Philippe Beutels

Estimation in generalized linear models (GLM) is complicated by the presence of constraints. One can handle constraints by maximizing a penalized log-likelihood. Penalties such as the lasso are effective in high dimensions, but often lead…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Jason Xu , Eric C. Chi , Kenneth Lange

As one of the most popular statistical and machine learning models, logistic regression with regularization has found wide adoption in biomedicine, social sciences, information technology, and so on. These domains often involve data of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Wenfa Li , Hongzhe Liu , Peng Yang , Wei Xie

Combining data from several case-control genome-wide association (GWA) studies can yield greater efficiency for detecting associations of disease with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) than separate analyses of the component studies.…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-10-26 Ruth M. Pfeiffer , Mitchell H. Gail , David Pee

Regularization is widely used in statistics and machine learning to prevent overfitting and gear solution towards prior information. In general, a regularized estimation problem minimizes the sum of a loss function and a penalty term. The…

Computation · Statistics 2012-01-18 Hua Zhou , Yichao Wu

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identify correlations between the genetic variants and an observable characteristic such as a disease. Previous works presented privacy-preserving distributed algorithms for a federation of genome data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Túlio Pascoal , Jérémie Decouchant , Marcus Völp

Penalization schemes like Lasso or ridge regression are routinely used to regress a response of interest on a high-dimensional set of potential predictors. Despite being decisive, the question of the relative strength of penalization is…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-11-08 Britta Velten , Wolfgang Huber

A computationally simple genome-wide association study (GWAS) algorithm for estimating the main and epistatic effects of markers or single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is proposed. It is based on the intuitive assumption that changes of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-08 Lev V. Utkin , Irina L. Utkina

One way of investigating how genes affect human traits would be with a genome-wide association study (GWAS). Genetic markers, known as single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), are used in GWAS. This raises privacy and security concerns as…

Applications · Statistics 2019-08-02 Jun Jie Sim , Fook Mun Chan , Shibin Chen , Benjamin Hong Meng Tan , Khin Mi Mi Aung

One of the most important challenges in the analysis of high-throughput genetic data is the development of efficient computational methods to identify statistically significant Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs). Genome-wide association…

Genome-wide association studies have become increasingly common due to advances in technology and have permitted the identification of differences in single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) alleles that are associated with diseases. However,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-24 Rosemary Braun , Kenneth Buetow

Regression by composition provides a flexible framework for constructing conditional distributions through sequential group actions. However, when multiple flows act on the same distribution, the model becomes non-identifiable, leading to…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-30 Safaa K. Kadhem