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Journal Article
Differential confounding of rare and common variants in spatially structured populations
2012
Overview
Gil McVean and Iain Mathieson report an analysis of the differential effects of population stratification on rare and common variants within association studies. They find that rare variants may show stronger stratification in some situations and that this is not corrected for by current structure methods, suggesting the need for the development of new statistical methods.
Well-powered genome-wide association studies, now made possible through advances in technology and large-scale collaborative projects, promise to characterize the contribution of rare variants to complex traits and disease. However, while population structure is a known confounder of association studies, it remains unknown whether methods developed to control stratification are equally effective for rare variants. Here, we demonstrate that rare variants can show a stratification that is systematically different from, and typically stronger than, common variants, and this is not necessarily corrected by existing methods. We show that the same process leads to inflation for load-based tests and can obscure signals at truly associated variants. Furthermore, we show that populations can display spatial structure in rare variants, even when Wright's fixation index
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is low, but that allele frequency–dependent metrics of allele sharing can reveal localized stratification. These results underscore the importance of collecting and integrating spatial information in the genetic analysis of complex traits.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group US,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ analysis
/ Animal Genetics and Genomics
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Data Interpretation, Statistical
/ Design
/ Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
/ Genetics of eukaryotes. Biological and molecular evolution
/ Genome-Wide Association Study - methods
/ Humans
/ Quantitative Trait, Heritable
/ Studies
