Clustrat: A structure informed clustering strategy for population stratification

Aritra Bose, Myson C. Burch, Agniva Chowdhury, Peristera Paschou, Petros Drineas

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Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been extensively used to estimate the signed effects of trait-associated alleles. One of the key challenges in GWAS are confounding factors, such as population stratification, which can lead to spurious genotype-trait associations. Recent independent studies [1, 8, 10] failed to replicate the strong evidence of previously reported signals of directional selection on height in Europeans in the UK Biobank cohort, and attributed the loss of signal to cryptic relatedness in populations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch in Computational Molecular Biology - 24th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2020, Proceedings
EditorsRussell Schwartz
PublisherSpringer
Pages234-236
Number of pages3
ISBN (Print)9783030452568
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event24th Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2020 - Padua, Italy
Duration: May 10 2020May 13 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12074 LNBI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference24th Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2020
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityPadua
Period05/10/2005/13/20

Funding

Supported by NSF IIS 1715202 and NFS DMS 1760353 awarded to PD and PP.

FundersFunder number
NFS DMS
National Science FoundationIIS 1715202, 1760353, 1715202

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