Chapter title |
Assessing Rare Variation in Complex Traits
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Book title |
Genetic Epidemiology
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7868-7_5 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7867-0, 978-1-4939-7868-7
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Authors |
Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Emil Vincent Rosenbaum Appel |
Abstract |
While genome-wide association studies have been very successful in identifying associations of common genetic variants with many different traits, the rarer frequency spectrum of the genome has not yet been comprehensively explored. Technological developments increasingly lift restrictions to access rare genetic variation. Dense reference panels enable improved genotype imputation for rarer variants in studies using DNA microarrays. Moreover, the decreasing cost of next generation sequencing makes whole exome and genome sequencing increasingly affordable for large samples. Large-scale efforts based on sequencing, such as ExAC, 100,000 Genomes, and TopMed, are likely to significantly advance this field.The main challenge in evaluating complex trait associations of rare variants is statistical power. The choice of population should be considered carefully because allele frequencies and linkage disequilibrium structure differ between populations. Genetically isolated populations can have favorable genomic characteristics for the study of rare variants.One strategy to increase power is to assess the combined effect of multiple rare variants within a region, known as aggregate testing. A range of methods have been developed for this. Model performance depends on the genetic architecture of the region of interest. |
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