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A Novel Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Joint Analysis of Multiple Phenotypes Uncovers Obesity Variants Based on ARIC
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have successfully discovered numerous variants underlying various diseases. Generally, one-phenotype one-variant association study in GWASs is not efficient in identifying variants with weak effects, indicating that more signals have not been identified yet. N...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8981031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35391794 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.791920 |
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author | Fu, Liwan Wang, Yuquan Li, Tingting Yang, Siqian Hu, Yue-Qing |
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description | Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have successfully discovered numerous variants underlying various diseases. Generally, one-phenotype one-variant association study in GWASs is not efficient in identifying variants with weak effects, indicating that more signals have not been identified yet. Nowadays, jointly analyzing multiple phenotypes has been recognized as an important approach to elevate the statistical power for identifying weak genetic variants on complex diseases, shedding new light on potential biological mechanisms. Therefore, hierarchical clustering based on different methods for calculating correlation coefficients (HCDC) is developed to synchronously analyze multiple phenotypes in association studies. There are two steps involved in HCDC. First, a clustering approach based on the similarity matrix between two groups of phenotypes is applied to choose a representative phenotype in each cluster. Then, we use existing methods to estimate the genetic associations with the representative phenotypes rather than the individual phenotypes in every cluster. A variety of simulations are conducted to demonstrate the capacity of HCDC for boosting power. As a consequence, existing methods embedding HCDC are either more powerful or comparable with those of without embedding HCDC in most scenarios. Additionally, the application of obesity-related phenotypes from Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities via existing methods with HCDC uncovered several associated variants. Among these, UQCC1-rs1570004 is reported as a significant obesity signal for the first time, whose differential expression in subcutaneous fat, visceral fat, and muscle tissue is worthy of further functional studies. |
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spelling | pubmed-89810312022-04-06 A Novel Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Joint Analysis of Multiple Phenotypes Uncovers Obesity Variants Based on ARIC Fu, Liwan Wang, Yuquan Li, Tingting Yang, Siqian Hu, Yue-Qing Front Genet Genetics Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have successfully discovered numerous variants underlying various diseases. Generally, one-phenotype one-variant association study in GWASs is not efficient in identifying variants with weak effects, indicating that more signals have not been identified yet. Nowadays, jointly analyzing multiple phenotypes has been recognized as an important approach to elevate the statistical power for identifying weak genetic variants on complex diseases, shedding new light on potential biological mechanisms. Therefore, hierarchical clustering based on different methods for calculating correlation coefficients (HCDC) is developed to synchronously analyze multiple phenotypes in association studies. There are two steps involved in HCDC. First, a clustering approach based on the similarity matrix between two groups of phenotypes is applied to choose a representative phenotype in each cluster. Then, we use existing methods to estimate the genetic associations with the representative phenotypes rather than the individual phenotypes in every cluster. A variety of simulations are conducted to demonstrate the capacity of HCDC for boosting power. As a consequence, existing methods embedding HCDC are either more powerful or comparable with those of without embedding HCDC in most scenarios. Additionally, the application of obesity-related phenotypes from Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities via existing methods with HCDC uncovered several associated variants. Among these, UQCC1-rs1570004 is reported as a significant obesity signal for the first time, whose differential expression in subcutaneous fat, visceral fat, and muscle tissue is worthy of further functional studies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8981031/ /pubmed/35391794 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.791920 Text en Copyright © 2022 Fu, Wang, Li, Yang and Hu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Genetics Fu, Liwan Wang, Yuquan Li, Tingting Yang, Siqian Hu, Yue-Qing A Novel Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Joint Analysis of Multiple Phenotypes Uncovers Obesity Variants Based on ARIC |
title | A Novel Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Joint Analysis of Multiple Phenotypes Uncovers Obesity Variants Based on ARIC |
title_full | A Novel Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Joint Analysis of Multiple Phenotypes Uncovers Obesity Variants Based on ARIC |
title_fullStr | A Novel Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Joint Analysis of Multiple Phenotypes Uncovers Obesity Variants Based on ARIC |
title_full_unstemmed | A Novel Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Joint Analysis of Multiple Phenotypes Uncovers Obesity Variants Based on ARIC |
title_short | A Novel Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Joint Analysis of Multiple Phenotypes Uncovers Obesity Variants Based on ARIC |
title_sort | novel hierarchical clustering approach for joint analysis of multiple phenotypes uncovers obesity variants based on aric |
topic | Genetics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8981031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35391794 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.791920 |
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