bGWAS: an R package to perform Bayesian genome wide association studies.

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Title
bGWAS: an R package to perform Bayesian genome wide association studies.
Journal
Bioinformatics
Author(s)
Mounier N., Kutalik Z.
ISSN
1367-4811 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1367-4803
Publication state
Published
Issued date
01/08/2020
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
36
Number
15
Pages
4374-4376
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Increasing sample size is not the only strategy to improve discovery in Genome Wide Association Studies (GWASs) and we propose here an approach that leverages published studies of related traits to improve inference. Our Bayesian GWAS method derives informative prior effects by leveraging GWASs of related risk factors and their causal effect estimates on the focal trait using multivariable Mendelian randomization. These prior effects are combined with the observed effects to yield Bayes Factors, posterior and direct effects. The approach not only increases power, but also has the potential to dissect direct and indirect biological mechanisms.
bGWAS package is freely available under a GPL-2 License, and can be accessed, alongside with user guides and tutorials, from https://github.com/n-mounier/bGWAS.
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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