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Data Integration of Multiple Genome-Wide Association Studies Under Group Homogeneous Structure
时间:2018年12月12日 17:06 点击数:

报告人:江源

报告地点:数学与统计学院415报告厅

报告时间:2018年12月13日星期四14:30-15:30

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Nowadays, it's common to have a large collection of datasets or findings from similar scientific studies, with the famous example of multiple genome-wide association studies that are investigating the same human disease. To take advantage of these datasets or findings, statisticians have developed data integration methods to combine either raw data or summary statistics from multiple studies in order to increase statistical power. Most data integration methods to date can only combine compatible studies with the same explanatory variables; they also tend to ignore the grouping structure of the explanatory variables. However, incompatible studies with grouped explanatory variables arise frequently from multiple genome-wide association studies that employ different genotyping platforms. Therefore, we propose a new method called “gMeta" that can integrate incompatible raw data or summary statistics under a new group homogeneous structure by utilizing group regularization principles. gMeta not only promotes statistical powers by assuming homogeneity among group-level signals but also allows heterogeneous individual-level signals from different studies. Simulation studies illustrate the advantage of gMeta over separate analysis in terms of its consistency and enhanced statistical power for detecting weak signals. Finally, an integrative analysis of multiple genetic datasets on schizophrenia shows the applicability and efficacy of gMeta when it is applied to genome-wide association studies.

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Dr. Yuan Jiang received his B.S. of Mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China in 2004, and Ph.D. of Statistics from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008. He worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale School of Public Health between 2008 and 2011. Then, he joined the Department of Statistics at Oregon State University as an Assistant Professor in 2011 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017.

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