The impact of phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity on results of genome wide association studies of complex diseases.
- Authors
- Manchia, Mirko; Cullis, Jeffrey; Turecki, Gustavo; Rouleau, Guy A; Uher, Rudolf; Alda, Martin
- Year
- 2013
- Journal
- PloS one
- PMID
- 24146854
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0076295
- PMCID
- PMC3795757
Phenotypic misclassification (between cases) has been shown to reduce the power to detect association in genetic studies. However, it is conceivable that complex traits are heterogeneous with respect to individual genetic susceptibility and disease pathophysiology, and that the effect of heterogeneity has a larger magnitude than the effect of phenotyping errors. Although an intuitively clear concept, the effect of heterogeneity on genetic studies of common diseases has received little attention. Here we investigate the impact of phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity on the statistical power of genome wide association studies (GWAS). We first performed a study of simulated genotypic and phenotypic data. Next, we analyzed the Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium (WTCCC) data for diabetes mellitus (DM) type 1 (T1D) and type 2 (T2D), using varying proportions of each type of diabetes in order to examine the impact of heterogeneity on the strength and statistical significance of association previously found in the WTCCC data. In both simulated and real data, heterogeneity (presence of "non-cases") reduced the statistical power to detect genetic association and greatly decreased the estimates of risk attributed to genetic variation. This finding was also supported by the analysis of loci validated in subsequent large-scale meta-analyses. For example, heterogeneity of 50% increases the required sample size by approximately three times. These results suggest that accurate phenotype delineation may be more important for detecting true genetic associations than increase in sample size.
The impact of heterogeneity on the sample size (cases and controls) required for 90% of statistical power.The minimum sample size to achieve to detect association was calculated in simulated case-control data with increasing proportion of βnon-casesβ considering a disease prevalence of 0.01. Data are reported for minor allele frequencies (MAF) of 0.01 (black), 0.05 (grey), 0.2 (red) and 0.5 (blue). The results are reported for dominant (panels A, C, and E) and multiplicative (panels B, D, and F) genetic models. RR = relative risk.
LLM interpretation
This figure consists of six line graphs (panels A-F) showing the relationship between the proportion of "non-cases" (x-axis) and the sample size required for 90% statistical power (y-axis). Across all panels, the required sample size increases exponentially as the proportion of "non-cases" increases. Different colored lines represent various minor allele frequencies (MAF: 0.01 black, 0.05 grey, 0.2 red, 0.5 blue), with the required sample size generally decreasing as the relative risk (RR = 1.2, 1.5, 2) increases. Panels A, C, and E represent dominant genetic models, while B, D, and F represent multiplicative models.
The impact of heterogeneity on the estimation of the genetic effect size.Odds ratios from simulated case-control data were calculated for each step of admixture. Data are reported for minor allele frequencies (MAF) of 0.01 (black), 0.05 (grey), 0.2 (red) and 0.5 (blue). The results are reported for dominant (panels A, C, and E) and multiplicative (panels B, D, and F) genetic models. RR = relative risk; OR = odds ratio.
LLM interpretation
This figure consists of six line graphs (panels A-F) showing the relationship between the proportion of "non-cases" (x-axis) and the odds ratio (OR, y-axis) across different relative risks (RR = 1.2, 1.5, and 2). Each panel contains four colored lines representing different minor allele frequencies (MAF): 0.01 (black), 0.05 (grey), 0.2 (red), and 0.5 (blue). Across all panels, the OR decreases as the proportion of "non-cases" increases, with the divergence between MAF groups becoming more pronounced at higher relative risks (RR = 2).
Genome-wide analysis of the Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium (WTCCC) data for diabetes type 1 (T1D) and type 2 (T2D) under heterogeneity: twenty most significant associations [βlog(p-values)].SNP = single nucleotide polymorphism; Ξ² = admixture.
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This figure consists of two tables presenting genome-wide association data for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) and Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) from the WTCCC dataset. Each table lists the twenty most significant SNPs, comparing reported p-values against genotype p-values and p-values calculated under varying levels of admixture ($\beta$) from 0% to 100%. The data shows a general trend where $-\log(p\text{-values})$ decrease as the admixture percentage increases, with corresponding significance levels indicated in the bottom row.
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