Tag: GWAS

NEW YORK – A team from Stanford University and other centers in the US and China have demonstrated that polygenic risk scores (PRS) based on common variants can be bolstered by incorporating clues from rare variants linked to significant gene expression shifts, dubbed expression outliers. “As individual PRS estimates are…

Wei, K. et al. Notch signalling drives synovial fibroblast identity and arthritis pathology. Nature 582, 259–264 (2020). ADS CAS PubMed PubMed Central Article Google Scholar  Cembrowski, M. S. & Menon, V. Continuous variation within cell types of the nervous system. Trends Neurosci. 41, 337–348 (2018). CAS PubMed Article Google Scholar  Maurano, M. T. et al. Systematic localization of…

Qualification Details. Objective/methods: This report investigates by histology, immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization the histological and . Philip Lupo, Ph.D. Dr. Lupo is a co-principal investigator in the Systems Epidemiology of Cancer Training Program and an associate professor in the Section of Hematology-Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics. . «Genetic…

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Remove related individuals pre or post ld-pruning before GWAS? 0 I’m doing a GWAS on a dataset that contains some related individuals. To avoid false positives, I’m removing related individuals from the dataset as well as doing LD pruning. However, I am unsure what order should the algorithm follow and…

Significant gene-AD associations With the GWAS summary data from the IGAP and eQTL summary data from BRAINEAC, we performed both SMR and HEIDI tests to estimate the gene-AD associations in three human brain regions: frontal cortex, temporal cortex, and hippocampal regions. For the frontal cortex and hippocampal regions, we obtained…

In this interview, we speak to Dr. Zhaoming Wang about his latest research that investigated accelerated aging in childhood cancer survivors and the underlying genetics causing this. Please could you introduce yourself and tell us what inspired your latest research? I’m an associate member of the faculty at St. Jude…

Cattle are among the largest populations of domesticated animals and used as food resources for humans; therefore, their phenotypes and genetic structure have been shaped by artificial selection for human needs and natural adaptation to environmental changes. The phenotypic selection causes genomic changes in breeding traits within breeds, resulting in…

Extact SNPs ID’s and their Values with IID, Additive and dominance components 0 I’m dealing with GWAS data and I have 2M records of the .bed file, I’m New to P-link, Can anyone please help me with the Plink command which can Extract all SNPs Id’s and their Values with…

Sequencing data We used publicly available sequencing data from the GIAB consortium45, 1000 Genomes Project high-coverage data46 and Human Genome Structural Variation Consortium (HGSVC)4. All datasets include only samples consented for public dissemination of the full genomes. Statistics and reproducibility For generating the assemblies, we used all 14 samples for…

NEW YORK — Polygenic transcriptome risk scores may be better at gauging chronic obstructive pulmonary disease susceptibility across human ancestry groups than polygenic risk scores, a new study has found. COPD affects about 16 million people in the US and is typically diagnosed through two measures of lung function: forced…

Transcribed image text: Based on the Manhattan plot of GWAS study looking at alleles associated with breast cancer in a Japanese population (below). what can you conclude about the SNP rs 1177 (Choose the best answer.) GWAS of breast cancer in Japanese population 78117 60 5334 18366 r3589 are dortor…

Explore SNVs associations with traits of UK BioBank. GWAS study results where made publicly available courtesy of Neale’s Lab on August 1st, 2018. For more information please visit: www.nealelab.is/uk-biobank INSTALL In R: devtools::install_github(“adRn-s/ukbbgwas”). DEV(s) Dependencies Mandatory and optional dependencies can all be handled with bioconda. Here’s a complete YAML specification…

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.SNPRelate     This package is for version 3.12 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see SNPRelate. Parallel Computing Toolset for Relatedness and Principal Component Analysis of SNP Data Bioconductor version: 3.12 Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are widely used to investigate the genetic basis of diseases and…

Hi, I was trying to run regenie workflow in ukb rap (part E). github.com/dnanexus/UKB_RAP/blob/main/GWAS/regenie_workflow/partE-step2-qc-filter.sh All the previous steps ran perfectly without any error. But in this step partE-step2-qc-filter.sh I am getting dx: error: unrecognized arguments: –bfile ukb23155_c22_b0_v1 –no-pheno –keep natd_wes_200k.phe –autosome –maf 0.01 –mac 20 –geno 0.1 –hwe 1e-15 –mind…

Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Aysu Okbay, Hyeokmoon Kweon & Philipp D. Koellinger Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia Yeda Wu, Julia Sidorenko, Jian Yang, Loic Yengo & Peter M. Visscher National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Nancy Wang, Hariharan Jayashankar, Michael Bennett, Grant Goldman, Tamara Gjorgjieva, Steven…

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (eds). Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Rererences. researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp. Electronic version, Accessed 15 October 2021. Nelson, J. S. Fishes of the World 4th edn, 372 (Wiley, 2006). Google Scholar  Chen, X. H., Lin, K. B. & Wang, X. W. Outbreaks…

Invitae is a rapidly growing, purposeful company. Our mission is to empower doctors and patients with genetic information to help them make informed medical decisions at all stages of life. The Integrated Risk Assessment Platform plays a meaningful role in rapidly growing our understanding of genomic health and personalized medicine….

Rosen, E. D. & Spiegelman, B. M. What we talk about when we talk about fat. Cell 156, 20–44 (2014). CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Kahn, S. E., Hull, R. L. & Utzschneider, K. M. Mechanisms linking obesity to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Nature 444, 840–846 (2006)….

Cooper, G. S., Bynum, M. L. K. & Somers, E. C. Recent insights in the epidemiology of autoimmune diseases: improved prevalence estimates and understanding of clustering of diseases. J. Autoimmun. 33, 197–207 (2009). PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  El-Gabalawy, H., Guenther, L. C. & Bernstein, C. N. Epidemiology of immune-mediated…

What software to use for GWAS with repeated longitudinal quantitative phenotype data? 0 I have quantitative data that has been collected at 4 different time points. Before treatment, 1 month after, 1 year after and 2 year after. I have generated Linear Mixed Models in R to obtain the residuals….

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The human genome is enormously complex. Before the first draft of the genome was completed in 2003, there was an optimism that knowing its sequence could smoothly translate into cures and treatments for various diseases. Unfortunately, the scientific community quickly discovered that having the DNA sequence is still many steps…

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An open position for a Postdoctoral Fellow in human molecular genetics/genomics field is available in the laboratory of Rinki Ratnapriya, Ph.D. at the Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. The successful applicant will work on functional characterization of AMD-GWAS signals to understand the molecular basis of observed…

The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database[1] (dbSNP) is a free public archive for genetic variation within and across different species developed and hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in collaboration with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Although the name of the database implies a collection of…

1. Jansen, I. E. et al. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new loci and functional pathways influencing Alzheimer’s disease risk. Nat. Genet. 51, 404–413 (2019). CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  2. Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci. Nature 511, 421–427 (2014). PubMed…

Background: Mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA-CN) is an accessible blood-based measurement believed to capture underlying mitochondrial function. The specific biological processes underpinning its regulation, and whether those processes are causative for disease, is an area of active investigation. Methods: We developed a novel method for array-based mtDNA-CN estimation suitable for…

Introduction Sleep is a complex neurological and physiological state. It is defined as a natural and reversible state of reduced responsiveness to external stimuli and relative inactivity, accompanied by a loss of consciousness.1 Sleep disorders can be classified as seven major categories: insomnia disorders, sleep-related breathing disorders, central disorders of…

1. Wang, J. & Jia, H. Metagenome-wide association studies: fine-mining the microbiome. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 14, 508–522 (2016). CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  2. Moschen, A. R. et al. Lipocalin 2 protects from inflammation and tumorigenesis associated with gut microbiota alterations. Cell Host Microbe 19, 455–469 (2016). CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar …

Significance Genetic investigations of most structural birth defects, including spina bifida (SB), congenital heart disease, and craniofacial anomalies, have been underpowered for genome-wide association studies because of their rarity, genetic heterogeneity, incomplete penetrance, and environmental influences. Our systems biology strategy to investigate SB predisposition controls for population stratification and avoids…

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Polygenetic Risk Score Calculation 1 Hello all, My company has Whole exome sequencing (WES) data for individuals lying around and was wondering if this can be used to generate Polygenetic Risk Scores (PRS)? From what I researched online, it seems to be more so used for GWAS and not WES….

Big genomic data visualization. DNA test, genom map. Graphic concept for your design A multi-ancestry genome-wide association study (GWAS),  led by scientists from the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium (GLGC) recently analyzed genomic data from nearly 1.65 million individuals to narrow down the number of genomic variants strongly associated with blood…

How to merge vcf files 3 Hi, I have 90 VCF files which I am looking to merge into one VCF file. I am trying to use VCFtools to merge these files. For that I am following the below process but while using vcf-merge command is not able to merge…

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I would like to perform QTL analysis on a list of BAM files that I have containing the locations of histone mark reads. Ultimately my aim is to perform Mendellian randomisation, with these hQTLs as the exposure, against a different phenotype as the outcome. The outcome effects are expressed as…

Department of Neurology, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands Wouter van Rheenen, Rick A. A. van der Spek, Mark K. Bakker, Joke J. F. A. van Vugt, Paul J. Hop, Ramona A. J. Zwamborn, Annelot M. Dekker, Klara Gawor, Henk-Jan Westeneng, Gijs H. P. Tazelaar, Kristel R. van Eijk, Maarten Kooyman, Ewout J. N. Groen, Michael…

METAL GWAS 0 I’m using METAL to perform meta-analysis of GWAS, but one of the public summary data I downloaded did not have effect allele frequency. I am wondering if i can perform METAl without effect allele frequency or is there anything I can do to fix this problem? frequency…

NEW YORK – Researchers at Decode Genetics (a subsidiary of Amgen), the University of Iceland, and Reykjavik University have conducted a population-scale study of plasma proteins, genomics, and transcriptomics data to create a new resource that could be used to further elucidate disease pathogenesis. In a study published in Nature…

Job Description A Research Associate (Bioinformatics/Bio-Data Science/Machine Learning) position is currently available in the Bio-Data Science and Education Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (gohwils.github.io/biodatascience/). The project is concerned with developing predictive models for early detection of mental illness in youth cohorts in Singapore and New Zealand…

1. Buniello, A. et al. The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog of published genome-wide association studies, targeted arrays and summary statistics 2019. Nucleic Acids Res. 47, D1005–D1012 (2019). CAS  Google Scholar  2. Loos, R. J. F. 15 years of genome-wide association studies and no signs of slowing down. Nat. Commun. 11, 5900…

Motivation: In spite of great success of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), multiple challenges still remain. First, complex traits are often associated with many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), each with small or moderate effect sizes. Second, our understanding of the functional mechanisms through which genetic variants are associated with complex traits…

Where To Get The Genetic Map For The Haplotype Reference Consortium to phase the data externally using SHAPEIT software with family information 0 The Sanger Imputation Service does not offer a pipeline that utilizes the family information during phasing. Therefore, our pipeline (previously) has been to previously use genetic maps…

How to calculate beta and SE from z-score , p-value and frequency 0 Hi all, I have (an imputed) GWAS that only has z-score and p-values. I want to convert z-score into beta and SE. My ultimate goal is to use log(odds ratio) with its corresponding standard error to run…

Share Tweet Share Share Email An overview of the latest in next-generation sequencing techniques and technologies. Next-generation sequencing (NGS), or ‘high-throughput sequencing’, is a catch-all term that refers to various modern sequencing techniques. These techniques enable the rapid sequencing of the base pairs…

Introduction Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is chronic and recurrent intestinal inflammation of unknown etiology. Epidemiological data indicate that the incidence of IBD is high in Western regions, such as the Americas and Europe, and low in Asian regions. However, IBD has become increasingly common in Asia in recent years with…

Polygenetic risk score construction in UKBB 0 Hi, all. I am learning to construct a polygenetic score in UKBB using published GWAS summary statistics. So I was trying to apply for certain SNPs in the AMS. When applying for SNPs one by one, I was asked to enter SNP (Affy)…

Gwas Help. 0 GWAS: I only have information on single allele in every samples. Example: At pos 657, sample 1 has T, sample 2 has C, sample3 has T and so on. To conduct a GWAS, should I consider it as homozygous? Ex. C should be treated as CC for…

michigan imputation server 0 Hi, I performed imputation on my GWAS data using Michigan imputation server. Now I have two output files: 1).dose.vcf.gz and 2).info.gz Michigan imputation server use mimimac3 (–format GT,DS,GP) and in the output file “.dose.vcf.gz” are present all the three formats. I’m new on this kind of…

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Source: minimac4 Version: 1.0.2-3 X-Debbugs-CC: debian…@lists.debian.org Severity: serious User: debian…@lists.debian.org Usertags: regression Dear maintainer(s), With a recent upload of minimac4 the autopkgtest of minimac4 fails in testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of minimac4 from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from testing. In…

How to classify the SNPs/gene loci as reported or novel? 1 I have a big list of significant SNPs (>30K) from a GWAS/meta-analysis. Can you please suggest what are some best ways to find the respective gene names and further classify them as already reported and novel ones? Thanks in…

I can get SHAPEIT to work with the default Plink PED/MAP format input files, but not with a VCF as input. As an example, here I use the demo data that comes with SHAPEIT, which runs well. DEMO=/Users/michaelflower/bin/shapeit.v2.904.3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64/example shapeit -B $DEMO/gwas.bed $DEMO/gwas.bim $DEMO/gwas.fam -M $DEMO/genetic_map.txt -O “$DIR”/shapeit/gwas.phased However, when I…

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How can get significant results from the GWAS summary statistics results 0 How can I use the GWAS summary statistics results and get the most significant genes and SNPs? summary GWAS PGS statistics • 41 views • link updated 47 minutes ago by gokberk &utrif; 70 • written 2 hours…

Allele coding in BGENIE GWAS output 1 Hi all, I have a quick question about BGENIE GWAS summary stats. In the summary statistics, alleles are coded as a_0 and a_1, looks like as the following: chr rsid pos a_0 a_1 af info pheno1_beta pheno1_se pheno1_t … 22 22:16050075:A:G 16050075 A…

How to analyze genotype data and imputed data in GWAS study 0 Dear users, I am new to GWAS study, I have a concern about genetic association procedures. After having real genotyped data from the experiment ( we use the array for genotyping), we need to impute the genotype data….

Hello r/bioinformatics. I’m a student studying plant selection (with an interest in bioinformatics) and right now for a course work (yeah I know using reddit for homework is frowned upon) I need to showcase an example of GWAS used to identify biotic stress. So I found this example of GWAS…

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DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.cageminer     Candidate Gene Miner Bioconductor version: Release (3.14) This package aims to integrate GWAS-derived SNPs and coexpression networks to mine candidate genes associated with a particular phenotype. For that, users must define a set of guide genes, which are known genes involved in the studied phenotype. Additionally,…

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How to make .ped and .map files 0 Hello I have a dataset but I need to create .ped and .map files (as I understand) in order to use plink to run a GWAS. However, I do not know what files I need to use in order to create them,…

How to run a GWAS in command line with Plink2? 0 I am trying to run a GWAS in the command line with plink version 2, however when I run the following command plink2 –file hapmap1 I get the following error Error: Unrecognized flag (‘–file’) I am trying to follow…

Significance Some social insects exhibit split sex ratios, wherein a subset of colonies produce future queens and others produce males. This phenomenon spawned many influential theoretical studies and empirical tests, both of which have advanced our understanding of parent–offspring conflicts and the maintenance of cooperative breeding. However, previous studies assumed…

Polygenic scores in diabetic individuals across UKBB 1 Hi all, I am calculating PRS for a binary trait (T2D) across UKBB individuals. I am using external GWAS from PRS catalog in order to acquire weights for the base file. I have noticed the weights are given in the form of…

PLINK Dosage file without family ID error 0 Hi, I am simply trying to extract a small set of SNPs from a .dos dosage file using plink1.9. However, I get the error: Line 1 of yourfile.dos has fewer tokens than expected I have checked that the .fam file and the…

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GWAS – Relationship between Standard Error and P-value 1 Is there a relationship between the p-values obtained in a GWAS and the standard error of the effect size of a SNP that can that can be explained either explicitly or intuitively? Methods for prediction based on effect sizes, such as…

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Dutta RK, Larsson M, Arnesen T, Heie A, Walz M, Alesina P, Gimm O, Söderkvist P Sci Rep 11 (1) 10562 [2021-05-18; online 2021-05-18] Aldosterone-producing adenomas (APAs) are a major cause of primary aldosteronism (PA) and are characterized by constitutively producing aldosterone, which leads to hypertension. Several mutations have been…

Hi everyone, I am trying to munge some data for later use in ldsc and I come into this error: /home/expcard/Projects/GWAS_SCA/GWAS_NTR/LDSC/ldsc/munge_sumstats.py –sumstats /home/dominicz/LDSC/SCAMILIFELINESforMETALnoSNPFinalLDSCmunge.txt –N 18236 –chunksize 500000 –out /home/dominicz/LDSC/SCAMILIFELINESforMETALnoSNPFinalLDSC.munge.txt –merge-alleles /home/dominicz/LDSC/w_hm3.snplist LD Score Regression (LDSC) Version 1.0.1 (C) 2014-2019 Brendan Bulik-Sullivan and Hilary Finucane Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard…

Background: Intramuscular fat (IMF) content is a determining factor for meat taste. The Luchuan pig is a fat-type local breed in southern China that is famous for its desirable meat quality due to high IMF, however, the crossbred offspring of Luchuan sows and Duroc boars displayed within-population variation on meat…

deflated QQ plot but lambda >1 1 Dear All, What might be the reason for a deflated QQ-plot but lambda showing > 1 value. GWAS (case-control using glm-logistic regression adjusting for PC1-PC3 and three covariates) was done in plink2.0, and QQ plot using QQman package TIA package plink deflation GWAS…

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PLINK and population stratification with known subpopulations 0 I want to perform a genome wide association study (GWAS) with PLINK 1.9. I have whole genome sequencing SNP calls for ~100 patients where I know in advance that there is a skew towards subpopulations of African and South American descents, with…

How to check the allele strand of variants? 1 Hi all, I have a list of variants obtained from various GWAS studies, it is important for me that all variant alleles (alternate allele) located on the forward strand. Could you please kindly tell me how I can check this issue…

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Checking chromosome builds for genotyping data 0 Hi, I have several studies worth of data (In both PLINK and vcf format), and I was wondering if anyone knew of an online tool which I could use to check my chromosome build i.e GRCh37 vs GRCh38. (I thought I used one…

I’m about to begin revising the 14th edition of my human genetics textbook. In normal times, I’d have amassed technical articles and case reports, as well as notes from meetings and interviews, choosing topics to add or ax and updating or replacing examples as the new edition takes shape. But…

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The advent of technology making feasible elucidation of whole genomic sequencing over the past 30 years has led to reports of many if not most important or interesting animal genomes (including the most celebrated results of the Human Genome Project) (see, e.g., “Nautilus pompilius Genome Determined“; “Giraffe Genome Reveals Relevant…

Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) is associated with a specific molecular signature — a set of genes that can be used as markers for a certain trait — in the brain that is linked to episodes of psychosis, or a loss of contact with reality, a mouse study found. According to the…

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How to make Q-Q plots for different models at a single chart using R? 1 Hello everyone! I am trying to make a Q-Q plot to visualise p-values obtained from different models afterr runing GWAS analysis. The key thing is that I want to reflect p-values from the different models…

Polygenic Risk Score Analysis for an individual genome 2 Hello, I am developing a model for PRS calculation. For PRS, you need the base data and target data. I have got these datasets however, it is not clear how the model can be used to predict the susceptibility of a…

GWAS Studies 0 How to create a .ped file for use in PLink? I have the following csv file: Chromosome Position Sample1 Sample 2 ……….. Sample n Chr Pos Sam1 Sam2 Sam3, Sam 4, ……Sample_n 1 11 A T T, A, A, T, …… 2 141 G G G, T,…

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GWAS data from PGC 0 this is my first time using the GWAS data, I downloaded some data from PGS and I Have some questions. 1- there are a lot of SNP to the same gene with different P-values, why does this occur? and if I want to use one…

How do I know the SNPS which are removed when clumping are in a LD block or SNPs not existed in 1000 Genome 0 Hi everyone, I’m not sure how to know why my SNPs are being removed applying clumping when reading the exposure data (in MR analysis). I would…

This article was originally published here J Neurooncol. 2021 Oct 20. doi: 10.1007/s11060-021-03878-5. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Risk factors for meningioma include female gender, African American race, high body mass index (BMI), and exposure to ionizing radiation. Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified two nuclear genome risk…

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