1. Effects of kinship correction on inflation of genetic interaction statistics in commonly used mouse populations
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J. Matthew Mahoney, Gregory W. Carter, Jake Emerson, Anna L. Tyler, Georgi Kolishovski, Baha El Kassaby, and Ann E. Wells
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AcademicSubjects/SCI01140 ,epistasis ,Mixed model ,Linkage disequilibrium ,Genotype ,AcademicSubjects/SCI00010 ,Biology ,AcademicSubjects/SCI01180 ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,Linkage Disequilibrium ,Mice ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Statistics ,Genetics ,Kinship ,Test statistic ,Animals ,Molecular Biology ,kinship ,Genetics (clinical) ,030304 developmental biology ,Statistical hypothesis testing ,Investigation ,0303 health sciences ,Models, Genetic ,Contrast (statistics) ,Epistasis, Genetic ,social sciences ,humanities ,behavior and behavior mechanisms ,AcademicSubjects/SCI00960 ,Epistasis ,Main effect ,linear mixed model ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Genome-Wide Association Study - Abstract
It is well understood that variation in relatedness among individuals, or kinship, can lead to false genetic associations. Multiple methods have been developed to adjust for kinship while maintaining power to detect true associations. However, relatively unstudied are the effects of kinship on genetic interaction test statistics. Here, we performed a survey of kinship effects on studies of six commonly used mouse populations. We measured inflation of main effect test statistics, genetic interaction test statistics, and interaction test statistics reparametrized by the Combined Analysis of Pleiotropy and Epistasis (CAPE). We also performed linear mixed model (LMM) kinship corrections using two types of kinship matrix: an overall kinship matrix calculated from the full set of genotyped markers, and a reduced kinship matrix, which left out markers on the chromosome(s) being tested. We found that test statistic inflation varied across populations and was driven largely by linkage disequilibrium. In contrast, there was no observable inflation in the genetic interaction test statistics. CAPE statistics were inflated at a level in between that of the main effects and the interaction effects. The overall kinship matrix overcorrected the inflation of main effect statistics relative to the reduced kinship matrix. The two types of kinship matrices had similar effects on the interaction statistics and CAPE statistics, although the overall kinship matrix trended toward a more severe correction. In conclusion, we recommend using an LMM kinship correction for both main effects and genetic interactions and further recommend that the kinship matrix be calculated from a reduced set of markers in which the chromosomes being tested are omitted from the calculation. This is particularly important in populations with substantial population structure, such as recombinant inbred lines in which genomic replicates are used.
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- 2021
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