| Title: | ON BLOCKWISE AND REFERENCE PANEL-BASED ESTIMATORS FOR GENETIC DATA PREDICTION IN HIGH DIMENSIONS. |
| Journal: | The Annals of Statistics |
| Published: | 1 Jun 2024 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39281348/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1214/24-aos2378 |
| URL: | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.12003 |
Publication 13347
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Abstract
Genetic prediction holds immense promise for translating genetic discoveries into medical advances. As the high-dimensional covariance matrix (or the linkage disequilibrium (LD) pattern) of genetic variants often presents a block-diagonal structure, numerous methods account for the dependence among variants in predetermined local LD blocks. Moreover, due to privacy considerations and data protection concerns, genetic variant dependence in each LD block is typically estimated from external reference panels rather than the original training data set. This paper presents a unified analysis of blockwise and reference panel-based estimators in a high-dimensional prediction framework without sparsity restrictions. We find that, surprisingly, even when the covariance matrix has a block-diagonal structure with well-defined boundaries, blockwise estimation methods adjusting for local dependence can be substantially less accurate than methods controlling for the whole covariance matrix. Further, estimation methods built on the original training data set and external reference panels are likely to have varying performance in high dimensions, which may reflect the cost of having only access to summary level data from the training data set. This analysis is based on novel results in random matrix theory for block-diagonal covariance matrix. We numerically evaluate our results using extensive simulations and real data analysis in the UK Biobank.</p>
3 Authors
- Bingxin Zhao
- Shurong Zheng
- Hongtu Zhu
1 Application
| Application ID | Title |
|---|---|
| 22783 | The joint analysis of imaging data and genetic data for early tumor detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment |
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