Powerful Rare‐Variant Association Analysis of Secondary Phenotypes

ABSTRACT Most genome‐wide association studies are based on case‐control designs, which provide abundant resources for secondary phenotype analyses. However, such studies suffer from biased sampling of primary phenotypes, and the traditional statistical methods can lead to seriously distorted analysi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Genetic epidemiology 2025-01, Vol.49 (1), p.e22589-n/a
Hauptverfasser: Liu, Hanyun, Zhang, Hong
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:ABSTRACT Most genome‐wide association studies are based on case‐control designs, which provide abundant resources for secondary phenotype analyses. However, such studies suffer from biased sampling of primary phenotypes, and the traditional statistical methods can lead to seriously distorted analysis results when they are applied to secondary phenotypes without accounting for the biased sampling mechanism. To our knowledge, there are no statistical methods specifically tailored for rare variant association analysis with secondary phenotypes. In this article, we proposed two novel joint test statistics for identifying secondary‐phenotype‐associated rare variants based on prospective likelihood and retrospective likelihood, respectively. We also exploit the assumption of gene‐environment independence in retrospective likelihood to improve the statistical power and adopt a two‐step strategy to balance statistical power and robustness. Simulations and a real‐data application are conducted to demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed methods.
ISSN:0741-0395
1098-2272
1098-2272
DOI:10.1002/gepi.22589