CCRaVAT and QuTie-enabling analysis of rare variants in large-scale case control and quantitative trait association studies.
BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have been successful in finding common variants influencing common traits. However, these associations only account for a fraction of trait heritability. There has been a shift in the field towards studying low frequency and rare variants, which are now w...
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| author | Lawrence, R Day-Williams, A Elliott, K Morris, A Zeggini, E |
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| description | BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have been successful in finding common variants influencing common traits. However, these associations only account for a fraction of trait heritability. There has been a shift in the field towards studying low frequency and rare variants, which are now widely recognised as putative complex trait determinants. Despite this increasing focus on examining the role of low frequency and rare variants in complex disease susceptibility, there is a lack of user-friendly analytical packages implementing powerful association tests for the analysis of rare variants. RESULTS: We have developed two software tools, CCRaVAT (Case-Control Rare Variant Analysis Tool) and QuTie (Quantitative Trait), which enable efficient large-scale analysis of low frequency and rare variants. Both programs implement a collapsing method examining the accumulation of low frequency and rare variants across a locus of interest that has more power than single variant analysis. CCRaVAT carries out case-control analyses whereas QuTie has been developed for continuous trait analysis. CONCLUSIONS: CCRaVAT and QuTie are easy to use software tools that allow users to perform genome-wide association analysis on low frequency and rare variants for both binary and quantitative traits. The software is freely available and provides the genetics community with a resource to perform association analysis on rarer genetic variants. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:52a2337b-64e1-415b-9409-628d2bc8dda82022-03-26T16:26:41ZCCRaVAT and QuTie-enabling analysis of rare variants in large-scale case control and quantitative trait association studies.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:52a2337b-64e1-415b-9409-628d2bc8dda8EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordBioMed Central2010Lawrence, RDay-Williams, AElliott, KMorris, AZeggini, E BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have been successful in finding common variants influencing common traits. However, these associations only account for a fraction of trait heritability. There has been a shift in the field towards studying low frequency and rare variants, which are now widely recognised as putative complex trait determinants. Despite this increasing focus on examining the role of low frequency and rare variants in complex disease susceptibility, there is a lack of user-friendly analytical packages implementing powerful association tests for the analysis of rare variants. RESULTS: We have developed two software tools, CCRaVAT (Case-Control Rare Variant Analysis Tool) and QuTie (Quantitative Trait), which enable efficient large-scale analysis of low frequency and rare variants. Both programs implement a collapsing method examining the accumulation of low frequency and rare variants across a locus of interest that has more power than single variant analysis. CCRaVAT carries out case-control analyses whereas QuTie has been developed for continuous trait analysis. CONCLUSIONS: CCRaVAT and QuTie are easy to use software tools that allow users to perform genome-wide association analysis on low frequency and rare variants for both binary and quantitative traits. The software is freely available and provides the genetics community with a resource to perform association analysis on rarer genetic variants. |
| spellingShingle | Lawrence, R Day-Williams, A Elliott, K Morris, A Zeggini, E CCRaVAT and QuTie-enabling analysis of rare variants in large-scale case control and quantitative trait association studies. |
| title | CCRaVAT and QuTie-enabling analysis of rare variants in large-scale case control and quantitative trait association studies. |
| title_full | CCRaVAT and QuTie-enabling analysis of rare variants in large-scale case control and quantitative trait association studies. |
| title_fullStr | CCRaVAT and QuTie-enabling analysis of rare variants in large-scale case control and quantitative trait association studies. |
| title_full_unstemmed | CCRaVAT and QuTie-enabling analysis of rare variants in large-scale case control and quantitative trait association studies. |
| title_short | CCRaVAT and QuTie-enabling analysis of rare variants in large-scale case control and quantitative trait association studies. |
| title_sort | ccravat and qutie enabling analysis of rare variants in large scale case control and quantitative trait association studies |
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