paperKB
coga / coga-kb
Help
Sign in

Chunk #37 — ONLINE METHODS — Association Analysis — Association / Meta-analysis

Source
Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia.
Embedded
yes

Text

In each individual cohort, association testing was based on an additive logistic regression model using PLINK11. As covariates we used a subset of the first 20 principal components (PCA), derived within each cohort. By default, we included the first 4 PCAs and thereafter every PCA that was nominally significantly associated (p<0.05) to case-control status. PCAs in trios were only used to remove extreme ancestry outliers. We conducted a meta-analysis of the results (including the 9 cohorts comprising African-American and Latino participants) using a standard error inverse-weighted fixed effects model. For chrX, gene dosages in males were scored 0 or 2, in females, 0/1/2. We summarised the associations as number of independently associated index SNPs. Index SNPs were LD independent and had r2 < 0.1 within 3 Mb windows. We recorded the left and rightmost variant with r2<0.1 to an index SNP to define an associated clump. To define loci, we added a 50kb window on each side of the LD clump and combined overlapping LD-clumps into a single locus.