| Title: | Proteome-wide association study using cis and trans variants and applied to blood cell and lipid-related traits in the Women's Health Initiative study |
| Journal: | Genetic Epidemiology |
| Published: | 28 Jun 2024 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38940271/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1002/gepi.22578 |
Publication 11768
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Abstract
In most Proteome-Wide Association Studies (PWAS), variants near the protein-coding gene (±1 Mb), also known as cis single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), are used to predict protein levels, which are then tested for association with phenotypes. However, proteins can be regulated through variants outside of the cis region. An intermediate GWAS step to identify protein quantitative trait loci (pQTL) allows for the inclusion of trans SNPs outside the cis region in protein-level prediction models. Here, we assess the prediction of 540 proteins in 1002 individuals from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), split equally into a GWAS set, an elastic net training set, and a testing set. We compared the testing r2 between measured and predicted protein levels using this proposed approach, to the testing r2 using only cis SNPs. The two methods usually resulted in similar testing r2, but some proteins showed a significant increase in testing r2 with our method. For example, for cartilage acidic protein 1, the testing r2 increased from 0.101 to 0.351. We also demonstrate reproducible findings for predicted protein association with lipid and blood cell traits in WHI participants without proteomics data and in UK Biobank utilizing our PWAS weights.</p>
9 Authors
- Brian D. Chen
- Chanhwa Lee
- Amanda L. Tapia
- Alexander P. Reiner
- Hua Tang
- Charles Kooperberg
- JoAnn E. Manson
- Yun Li
- Laura M. Raffield
1 Application
| Application ID | Title |
|---|---|
| 25953 | Transcriptome-wide Association Study of Cardiometabolic Traits in the UK Biobank Cohort |
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