A unified set-based test with adaptive filtering for gene-environment interaction analyses.

ABSTRACT: In genome-wide gene-environment interaction (GxE) studies, a common strategy to improve power is to first conduct a filtering test and retain only the SNPs that pass the filtering in the subsequent GxE analyses. Inspired by two-stage tests and gene-based tests in GxE analysis, we consider the general problem of jointly testing a set of parameters when only a few are truly from the alternative hypothesis and when filtering information is available. We propose a unified set-based test that simultaneously considers filtering on individual parameters and testing on the set. We derive the exact distribution and approximate the power function of the proposed unified statistic in simplified settings, and use them to adaptively calculate the optimal filtering threshold for each set. In the context

SUBMITTER: Liu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4842175 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature