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Causal graph-based analysis of genome-wide association data in rheumatoid arthritis
Authors:Alexander V Alekseyenko  Nikita I Lytkin  Jizhou Ai  Bo Ding  Leonid Padyukov  Constantin F Aliferis  Alexander Statnikov
Institution:1. Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 10016, USA
2. Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 10016, USA
3. Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
4. Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital Solna, SE-171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
5. Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 10016, USA
6. Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
Abstract:

Background

GWAS owe their popularity to the expectation that they will make a major impact on diagnosis, prognosis and management of disease by uncovering genetics underlying clinical phenotypes. The dominant paradigm in GWAS data analysis so far consists of extensive reliance on methods that emphasize contribution of individual SNPs to statistical association with phenotypes. Multivariate methods, however, can extract more information by considering associations of multiple SNPs simultaneously. Recent advances in other genomics domains pinpoint multivariate causal graph-based inference as a promising principled analysis framework for high-throughput data. Designed to discover biomarkers in the local causal pathway of the phenotype, these methods lead to accurate and highly parsimonious multivariate predictive models. In this paper, we investigate the applicability of causal graph-based method TIE* to analysis of GWAS data. To test the utility of TIE*, we focus on anti-CCP positive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) GWAS datasets, where there is a general consensus in the community about the major genetic determinants of the disease.

Results

Application of TIE* to the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort (NARAC) GWAS data results in six SNPs, mostly from the MHC locus. Using these SNPs we develop two predictive models that can classify cases and disease-free controls with an accuracy of 0.81 area under the ROC curve, as verified in independent testing data from the same cohort. The predictive performance of these models generalizes reasonably well to Swedish subjects from the closely related but not identical Epidemiological Investigation of Rheumatoid Arthritis (EIRA) cohort with 0.71-0.78 area under the ROC curve. Moreover, the SNPs identified by the TIE* method render many other previously known SNP associations conditionally independent of the phenotype.

Conclusions

Our experiments demonstrate that application of TIE* captures maximum amount of genetic information about RA in the data and recapitulates the major consensus findings about the genetic factors of this disease. In addition, TIE* yields reproducible markers and signatures of RA. This suggests that principled multivariate causal and predictive framework for GWAS analysis empowers the community with a new tool for high-quality and more efficient discovery.

Reviewers

This article was reviewed by Prof. Anthony Almudevar, Dr. Eugene V. Koonin, and Prof. Marianthi Markatou.
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