A Protein Domain and Family Based Approach to Rare Variant Association Analysis.
<h4>Background</h4>It has become common practice to analyse large scale sequencing data with statistical approaches based around the aggregation of rare variants within the same gene. We applied a novel approach to rare variant analysis by collapsing variants together using protein domai...
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| author | Tom G Richardson Hashem A Shihab Manuel A Rivas Mark I McCarthy Colin Campbell Nicholas J Timpson Tom R Gaunt |
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| description | <h4>Background</h4>It has become common practice to analyse large scale sequencing data with statistical approaches based around the aggregation of rare variants within the same gene. We applied a novel approach to rare variant analysis by collapsing variants together using protein domain and family coordinates, regarded to be a more discrete definition of a biologically functional unit.<h4>Methods</h4>Using Pfam definitions, we collapsed rare variants (Minor Allele Frequency ≤ 1%) together in three different ways 1) variants within single genomic regions which map to individual protein domains 2) variants within two individual protein domain regions which are predicted to be responsible for a protein-protein interaction 3) all variants within combined regions from multiple genes responsible for coding the same protein domain (i.e. protein families). A conventional collapsing analysis using gene coordinates was also undertaken for comparison. We used UK10K sequence data and investigated associations between regions of variants and lipid traits using the sequence kernel association test (SKAT).<h4>Results</h4>We observed no strong evidence of association between regions of variants based on Pfam domain definitions and lipid traits. Quantile-Quantile plots illustrated that the overall distributions of p-values from the protein domain analyses were comparable to that of a conventional gene-based approach. Deviations from this distribution suggested that collapsing by either protein domain or gene definitions may be favourable depending on the trait analysed.<h4>Conclusion</h4>We have collapsed rare variants together using protein domain and family coordinates to present an alternative approach over collapsing across conventionally used gene-based regions. Although no strong evidence of association was detected in these analyses, future studies may still find value in adopting these approaches to detect previously unidentified association signals. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2b7625b8d4c4434fb6470359f45a3f892025-08-20T03:24:30ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032016-01-01114e015380310.1371/journal.pone.0153803A Protein Domain and Family Based Approach to Rare Variant Association Analysis.Tom G RichardsonHashem A ShihabManuel A RivasMark I McCarthyColin CampbellNicholas J TimpsonTom R Gaunt<h4>Background</h4>It has become common practice to analyse large scale sequencing data with statistical approaches based around the aggregation of rare variants within the same gene. We applied a novel approach to rare variant analysis by collapsing variants together using protein domain and family coordinates, regarded to be a more discrete definition of a biologically functional unit.<h4>Methods</h4>Using Pfam definitions, we collapsed rare variants (Minor Allele Frequency ≤ 1%) together in three different ways 1) variants within single genomic regions which map to individual protein domains 2) variants within two individual protein domain regions which are predicted to be responsible for a protein-protein interaction 3) all variants within combined regions from multiple genes responsible for coding the same protein domain (i.e. protein families). A conventional collapsing analysis using gene coordinates was also undertaken for comparison. We used UK10K sequence data and investigated associations between regions of variants and lipid traits using the sequence kernel association test (SKAT).<h4>Results</h4>We observed no strong evidence of association between regions of variants based on Pfam domain definitions and lipid traits. Quantile-Quantile plots illustrated that the overall distributions of p-values from the protein domain analyses were comparable to that of a conventional gene-based approach. Deviations from this distribution suggested that collapsing by either protein domain or gene definitions may be favourable depending on the trait analysed.<h4>Conclusion</h4>We have collapsed rare variants together using protein domain and family coordinates to present an alternative approach over collapsing across conventionally used gene-based regions. Although no strong evidence of association was detected in these analyses, future studies may still find value in adopting these approaches to detect previously unidentified association signals.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0153803&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Tom G Richardson Hashem A Shihab Manuel A Rivas Mark I McCarthy Colin Campbell Nicholas J Timpson Tom R Gaunt A Protein Domain and Family Based Approach to Rare Variant Association Analysis. PLoS ONE |
| title | A Protein Domain and Family Based Approach to Rare Variant Association Analysis. |
| title_full | A Protein Domain and Family Based Approach to Rare Variant Association Analysis. |
| title_fullStr | A Protein Domain and Family Based Approach to Rare Variant Association Analysis. |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Protein Domain and Family Based Approach to Rare Variant Association Analysis. |
| title_short | A Protein Domain and Family Based Approach to Rare Variant Association Analysis. |
| title_sort | protein domain and family based approach to rare variant association analysis |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0153803&type=printable |
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