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With the recent advent of high-throughput genotyping techniques, genetic data for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become increasingly available, which entails the development of efficient and effective statistical approaches.…
Gene-based testing is a commonly employed strategy in many genetic association studies. Gene-trait associations can be complex due to underlying population heterogeneity, gene-environment interactions, and various other reasons. Existing…
Motivated by the genomic application of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping, we propose a new procedure to perform simultaneous testing of multiple hypotheses using Bayes factors as input test statistics. One of the most…
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…
Imaging genetic studies aim to find associations between genetic variants and imaging quantitative traits. Traditional genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are based on univariate statistical tests, but when multiple traits are analyzed…
This manuscript delves into the intersection of genomics and phenotypic prediction, focusing on the statistical innovation required to navigate the complexities introduced by noisy covariates and confounders. The primary emphasis is on the…
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…
Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) are used to identify statistically significant genetic variants in case-control studies. GWAS typically use a p-value threshold of 5 x 10-8 to identify highly ranked single nucleotide polymorphisms…
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of genetic variants associated with complex traits, and some variants are shown to be associated with multiple complex traits. Genetic covariance between two traits is defined…
For the vast majority of genome wide association studies (GWAS) published so far, statistical analysis was performed by testing markers individually. In this article we present some elementary statistical considerations which clearly show…
The advent of artificial intelligence, especially the progress of deep neural networks, is expected to revolutionize genetic research and offer unprecedented potential to decode the complex relationships between genetic variants and disease…
The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized genomic research by enabling cost-effective, high-throughput sequencing of a diverse range of organisms. This breakthrough has unleashed a "Cambrian explosion" in genomic…
Causal inference approaches in systems genetics exploit quantitative trait loci (QTL) genotypes to infer causal relationships among phenotypes. The genetic architecture of each phenotype may be complex, and poorly estimated genetic…
Genomic regions (or loci) displaying outstanding correlation with some environmental variables are likely to be under selection and this is the rationale of recent methods of identifying selected loci and retrieving functional information…
Motivation: FASTQ is a standard file format for DNA sequencing data which stores both nucleotides and quality scores. A typical sequencing study can easily generate hundreds of gigabytes of FASTQ files, while public archives such as ENA and…
In this paper, association results from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are combined with a deep learning framework to test the predictive capacity of statistically significant single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) associated with…
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) link genetic variation to complex traits by leveraging expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) data. However, most implementations are typically limited to local (cis-acting) effects and fail…
To date, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified tens of thousands of genetic variants among a variety of traits/diseases, shedding a light on the genetic architecture of complex diseases. Polygenicity of complex…
Genetic association studies, in particular the genome-wide association study design, have provided a wealth of novel insights into the aetiology of a wide range of human diseases and traits. The next challenge consists of understanding the…
The decreasing costs and increasing speed and accuracy of DNA sample collection, preparation, and sequencing has rapidly produced an enormous volume of genetic data. However, fast and accurate analysis of the samples remains a bottleneck.…