Multi-context genetic modeling of transcriptional regulation resolves novel disease loci

Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) often ignore the specificity and sharing of effects across contexts (e.g., tissues). Here, the authors describe a method to split genetic effects into context-shared and context-specific terms. They apply their method to tissue and single-cell RNA-seq an...

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Main Authors: Mike Thompson, Mary Grace Gordon, Andrew Lu, Anchit Tandon, Eran Halperin, Alexander Gusev, Chun Jimmie Ye, Brunilda Balliu, Noah Zaitlen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33212-0
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Summary:Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) often ignore the specificity and sharing of effects across contexts (e.g., tissues). Here, the authors describe a method to split genetic effects into context-shared and context-specific terms. They apply their method to tissue and single-cell RNA-seq and show improved power in TWAS.
ISSN:2041-1723