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Disease-gene association through Genome-wide association study (GWAS) is an arduous task for researchers. Investigating single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that correlate with specific diseases needs statistical analysis of associations.…
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) suggests that a complex disease is typically affected by many genetic variants with small or moderate effects. Identification of these risk variants remains to be a very challenging problem.…
Risk prediction capitalizing on emerging human genome findings holds great promise for new prediction and prevention strategies. While the large amounts of genetic data generated from high-throughput technologies offer us a unique…
The advent of plant phenomics, coupled with the wealth of genotypic data generated by next-generation sequencing technologies, provides exciting new resources for investigations into and improvement of complex traits. However, these new…
The recent explosion of genetic and high dimensional biobank and 'omic' data has provided researchers with the opportunity to investigate the shared genetic origin (pleiotropy) of hundreds to thousands of related phenotypes. However,…
Genetic Gaussian network of multiple phenotypes constructed through the genetic correlation matrix is informative for understanding their biological dependencies. However, its interpretation may be challenging because the estimated genetic…
Understanding the genetic basis of complex traits is a longstanding challenge in the field of genomics. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of variant-trait associations, but most of these variants are located…
Genome-wide association studies generate very large datasets that require scalable analysis algorithms. In this report we describe the GEDI software package, which implements efficient algorithms for performing several common tasks in the…
Assessing the statistical power to detect susceptibility variants plays a critical role in GWA studies both from the prospective and retrospective points of view. Power is empirically estimated by simulating phenotypes under a disease model…
In genetic association studies, rare variants with extremely small allele frequency play a crucial role in complex traits, and the set-based testing methods that jointly assess the effects of groups of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)…
The objective of a genome-wide association study (GWAS) is to associate subsequences of individuals' genomes to the observable characteristics called phenotypes (e.g., high blood pressure). Motivated by the GWAS problem, in this paper we…
Motivation: Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) have made it possible to monitor genomes in great detail. New experiments not only use HTS to measure genomic features at one time point but to monitor them changing over time…
Investigating the genetic architecture of complex diseases is challenging due to the multifactorial and interactive landscape of genomic and environmental influences. Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands…
Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analysis identifies genetic markers associated with the expression of a gene. Most existing eQTL analyses and methods investigate association in a single, readily available tissue, such as blood.…
Recent studies demonstrate that effective healthcare can benefit from using the human genomic information. For instance, analysis of tumor genomes has revealed 140 genes whose mutations contribute to cancer. As a result, many institutions…
This paper describes a Bayesian statistical method for determining the genetic basis of a complex genetic trait. The method uses a sample of unrelated individuals classified into two groups, for example cases and controls. Each group is…
Understanding the genetic underpinnings of complex traits and diseases has been greatly advanced by genome-wide association studies (GWAS). However, a significant portion of trait heritability remains unexplained, known as ``missing…
Genotyping errors are known to influence the power of both family-based and case-control studies in the genetics of complex disease. Estimating genotyping error rate in a given dataset can be complex, but when family information is…
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent seizures, with global prevalence estimated at 50 million people worldwide. While progress in high-throughput sequencing has allowed for broad-based transcriptomic…
Recently-developed genotype imputation methods are a powerful tool for detecting untyped genetic variants that affect disease susceptibility in genetic association studies. However, existing imputation methods require individual-level…