POLARIS: Polygenic LD-adjusted risk score approach for set-based analysis of GWAS data.

ABSTRACT: Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are a method to summarize the additive trait variance captured by a set of SNPs, and can increase the power of set-based analyses by leveraging public genome-wide association study (GWAS) datasets. PRS aims to assess the genetic liability to some phenotype on the basis of polygenic risk for the same or different phenotype estimated from independent data. We propose the application of PRSs as a set-based method with an additional component of adjustment for linkage disequilibrium (LD), with potential extension of the PRS approach to analyze biologically meaningful SNP sets. We call this method POLARIS: POlygenic Ld-Adjusted RIsk Score. POLARIS identifies the LD structure of SNPs using spectral decomposition of the SNP correlation matrix and replaces the individu

SUBMITTER: Baker E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6001515 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature