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Analysis of Gene-Gene Interactions Using Gene-Trait Similarity Regression #MMPMID24969398
Wang X; Epstein MP; Tzeng JY
Hum Hered 2014[]; 78 (1): 17-26 PMID24969398show ga
Objective: Gene-Gene interactions (GxG) are important to study because of their extensiveness in biological systems and their potential in explaining missing heritability of complex traits. In this work, we propose a new similarity-based test to assess GxG at gene level, which permits the study of epistasis at biologically functional units with amplified interaction signals. Methods: Under the framework of gene-trait similarity regression (SimReg), we propose a gene-based test for detecting gene-gene interactions. SimReg uses a regression model to correlate trait similarity with genotypic similarity across a gene. Unlike existing gene-level methods based on leading principal components (PCs), SimReg summarizes all information on genotypic variation within a gene and can be used to assess the joint/interactive effects of two genes as well as the effect of one gene conditional on another. Results: Using simulations and a real data application on warfarin study, we show that the SimReg GxG tests have satisfactory power and robustness under different genetic architecture when compared to existing gene-based interaction tests such as PC analysis or partial least squares (PLS). A genomewide association study with ~20,000 genes may be completed on a parallel computing system in 2 weeks.