| Title: | Leveraging the local genetic structure for trans-ancestry association mapping |
| Journal: | American Journal of Human Genetics |
| Published: | 16 Jun 2022 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35714612/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.05.013 |
| URL: | https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.26.485910 |
Publication 7108
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Abstract
Over the past two decades, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have successfully advanced our understanding of the genetic basis of complex traits. Despite the fruitful discovery of GWASs, most GWAS samples are collected from European populations, and these GWASs are often criticized for their lack of ancestry diversity. Trans-ancestry association mapping (TRAM) offers an exciting opportunity to fill the gap of disparities in genetic studies between non-Europeans and Europeans. Here, we propose a statistical method, LOG-TRAM, to leverage the local genetic architecture for TRAM. By using biobank-scale datasets, we showed that LOG-TRAM can greatly improve the statistical power of identifying risk variants in under-represented populations while producing well-calibrated p values. We applied LOG-TRAM to the GWAS summary statistics of various complex traits/diseases from BioBank Japan, UK Biobank, and African populations. We obtained substantial gains in power and achieved effective correction of confounding biases in TRAM. Finally, we showed that LOG-TRAM can be successfully applied to identify ancestry-specific loci and the LOG-TRAM output can be further used for construction of more accurate polygenic risk scores in under-represented populations.7 Authors
- Jiashun Xiao
- Mingxuan Cai
- Xinyi Yu
- Xianghong Hu
- Gang Chen
- Xiang Wan
- Can Yang
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