TY - JOUR
T1 - LDAK-GBAT
T2 - Fast and powerful gene-based association testing using summary statistics
AU - Berrandou, Takiy-Eddine
AU - Balding, David
AU - Speed, Doug
N1 - Copyright © 2022 American Society of Human Genetics. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - We present LDAK-GBAT, a tool for gene-based association testing using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies that is computationally efficient, produces well-calibrated p values, and is significantly more powerful than existing tools. LDAK-GBAT takes approximately 30 min to analyze imputed data (2.9M common, genic SNPs), requiring less than 10 Gb memory. It shows good control of type 1 error given an appropriate reference panel. Across 109 phenotypes (82 from the UK Biobank, 18 from the Million Veteran Program, and nine from the Psychiatric Genetics Consortium), LDAK-GBAT finds on average 19% (SE: 1%) more significant genes than the existing tool sumFREGAT-ACAT, with even greater gains in comparison with MAGMA, GCTA-fastBAT, sumFREGAT-SKAT-O, and sumFREGAT-PCA.
AB - We present LDAK-GBAT, a tool for gene-based association testing using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies that is computationally efficient, produces well-calibrated p values, and is significantly more powerful than existing tools. LDAK-GBAT takes approximately 30 min to analyze imputed data (2.9M common, genic SNPs), requiring less than 10 Gb memory. It shows good control of type 1 error given an appropriate reference panel. Across 109 phenotypes (82 from the UK Biobank, 18 from the Million Veteran Program, and nine from the Psychiatric Genetics Consortium), LDAK-GBAT finds on average 19% (SE: 1%) more significant genes than the existing tool sumFREGAT-ACAT, with even greater gains in comparison with MAGMA, GCTA-fastBAT, sumFREGAT-SKAT-O, and sumFREGAT-PCA.
KW - UK Biobank
KW - complex traits
KW - gene-based association testing
KW - genome-wide association study
KW - statistical genetics
KW - Genome-Wide Association Study
KW - Phenotype
KW - Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics
KW - Genetic Testing
U2 - 10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.11.010
DO - 10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.11.010
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36480927
SN - 0002-9297
VL - 110
SP - 23
EP - 29
JO - American Journal of Human Genetics
JF - American Journal of Human Genetics
IS - 1
ER -