Quality control and conduct of genome-wide association meta-analyses

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作者
Winkler, Thomas W. [1 ]
Day, Felix R. [2 ]
Croteau-Chonka, Damien C. [3 ,4 ,5 ]
Wood, Andrew R. [6 ]
Locke, Adam E. [7 ,8 ]
Maegi, Reedik [9 ]
Ferreira, Teresa [10 ]
Fall, Tove [11 ,12 ]
Graff, Mariaelisa [13 ]
Justice, Anne E. [13 ]
Luan, Jian'an [2 ]
Gustafsson, Stefan [11 ]
Randall, Joshua C. [14 ]
Vedantam, Sailaja [15 ,16 ,17 ,18 ,19 ]
Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie [20 ]
Kilpelainen, Tuomas O. [21 ]
Scherag, Andre [22 ,23 ]
Esko, Tonu [9 ,15 ,16 ,17 ,18 ,19 ]
Kutalik, Zoltan [24 ,25 ,26 ]
Heid, Iris M. [1 ]
Loos, Ruth J. F. [27 ,28 ,29 ]
机构
[1] Univ Regensburg, Inst Epidemiol & Prevent Med, Dept Genet Epidemiol, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany
[2] Addenbrookes Hosp, Inst Metab Sci, MRC, Epidemiol Unit, Cambridge, England
[3] Univ N Carolina, Dept Genet, Chapel Hill, NC USA
[4] Brigham & Womens Hosp, Dept Med, Channing Div Network Med, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[5] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Boston, MA USA
[6] Univ Exeter, Sch Med, Exeter, Devon, England
[7] Univ Michigan, Dept Biostat, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[8] Univ Michigan, Ctr Stat Genet, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[9] Univ Tartu, Estonian Genome Ctr, EE-50090 Tartu, Estonia
[10] Univ Oxford, Wellcome Trust Ctr Human Genet, Oxford, England
[11] Uppsala Univ, Dept Med Sci, Mol Epidemiol & Sci Life Lab, Uppsala, Sweden
[12] Karolinska Inst, Dept Med Epidemiol & Biostat, Stockholm, Sweden
[13] Univ N Carolina, Dept Epidemiol, Chapel Hill, NC USA
[14] Wellcome Trust Sanger Inst, Cambridge, England
[15] Boston Childrens Hosp, Div Endocrinol, Boston, MA USA
[16] Boston Childrens Hosp, Div Genet, Boston, MA USA
[17] Boston Childrens Hosp, Ctr Basic & Translat Obes Res, Boston, MA USA
[18] Broad Inst, Program Med & Populat Genet, Cambridge, MA USA
[19] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Dept Genet, Boston, MA USA
[20] Harvard Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Nutr, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[21] Univ Copenhagen, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, Novo Nordisk Fdn, Ctr Basic Metab Res,Sect Metab Genet, Copenhagen, Denmark
[22] Univ Duisburg Essen, Univ Hosp Essen, Inst Med Informat Biometry & Epidemiol, Essen, Germany
[23] Jena Univ Hosp, Ctr Sepsis Control & Care, Integrated Res & Treatment Ctr, Jena, Germany
[24] Univ Lausanne, Dept Med Genet, Lausanne, Switzerland
[25] CHU Vaudois, Inst Social & Prevent Med IUMSP, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
[26] Swiss Inst Bioinformat, Lausanne, Switzerland
[27] Icahn Sch Med Mt Sinai, Charles Bronfman Inst Personalized Med, New York, NY 10029 USA
[28] Icahn Sch Med Mt Sinai, Mindich Child Hlth & Dev Inst, New York, NY USA
[29] Icahn Sch Med Mt Sinai, Genet Obes & Related Metab Traits Program, New York, NY USA
基金
欧洲研究理事会; 美国国家卫生研究院; 瑞士国家科学基金会; 英国医学研究理事会;
关键词
ANALYSES IDENTIFY; GLYCEMIC TRAITS; LOCI; VARIANTS; MASS;
D O I
10.1038/nprot.2014.071
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Rigorous organization and quality control (QC) are necessary to facilitate successful genome-wide association meta-analyses (GWAMAs) of statistics aggregated across multiple genome-wide association studies. This protocol provides guidelines for (i) organizational aspects of GWAMAs, and for (ii) QC at the study file level, the meta- level across studies and the meta-analysis output level. Real-world examples highlight issues experienced and solutions developed by the GIANT Consortium that has conducted meta-analyses including data from 125 studies comprising more than 330,000 individuals. We provide a general protocol for conducting GWAMAs and carrying out QC to minimize errors and to guarantee maximum use of the data. We also include details for the use of a powerful and flexible software package called EasyQC. Precise timings will be greatly influenced by consortium size. For consortia of comparable size to the GIANT Consortium, this protocol takes a minimum of about 10 months to complete.
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页码:1192 / 1212
页数:21
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