GWAS with phenotype adjusted for covariate (age, sex, PC, batch, centre) using PLINK or external linear model and take residual?

GWAS with phenotype adjusted for covariate (age, sex, PC, batch, centre) using PLINK or external linear model and take residual?

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Hi everyone, I am conducting GWAS analysis using PLINK but I wonder should I use PLINK to adjust the phenotype for fix effect (age, sex, PC, batch, centre) or should I use a separate regression (such as lm(pheno ~ covar) in R) and get the residuals for the GWAS?

Also, how about for Binary trait (case/control)? the residuals from logistic is not interpreted the same way as the residuals from the linear model.

And how about interaction effect (GxE) for binary cases, I know how to use the –parameters option to select the variables of interest but I wonder how to conduct GWAS adjusted for fix effect properly.

Using PLINK considering covariate / fix effects take quite a long time, I just have been able to run with the residuals getting from R.

Your help is really appreciated!


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