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Chunk #46 — Methods — Collapsing analyses

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Rare variant contribution to human disease in 281,104 UK Biobank exomes.
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To perform collapsing analyses, we aggregate variants within each gene that fit a given set of criteria, identified as qualifying variants17. Overall, we performed 11 non-synonymous collapsing analyses, including 10 dominant and one recessive model, plus an additional synonymous variant model as an empirical negative control. In each model, for each gene, the proportion of cases was compared to the proportion of controls among individuals carrying one or more qualifying variants in that gene. The exception is the recessive model, where a participant must have two qualifying alleles, either in homozygous or potential compound heterozygous form. Hemizygous genotypes for the X chromosome were also qualified for the recessive model. The qualifying variant criteria for each collapsing analysis model are in Extended Data Table 1. These models were designed to collectively capture a wide range of genetic architectures. They vary in terms of allele frequency (from private up to a maximum of 5%), predicted consequence (for example, PTV or missense), and REVEL and MTR scores. On the basis of SnpEff annotations, we defined synonymous variants as those annotated as ‘synonymous_variant’. We