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Jin Liu Jin Liu
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2013
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In genome-wide association studies (GWAS), penalization is an important approach for identifying genetic markers associated with trait while mixed model is successful in accounting for a complicated dependence structure among samples. Therefore, penalized linear mixed model is a tool that combines the advantages of penalization approach and linear mixed model. In this study, a GWAS with multiple highly correlated traits is analyzed. For GWAS with multiple quantitative traits that are highly correlated, the analysis using traits marginally inevitably lose some essential information among multiple traits. We propose a penalized-MTMM, a penalized multivariate linear mixed model that allows both the within-trait and between-trait variance components simultaneously for multiple traits. The proposed penalized-MTMM estimates variance components using an AI-REML method and conducts variable selection and point estimation simultaneously using group MCP and sparse group MCP. Best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) is used to find predictive values and the Pearsons correlations between predictive values and their corresponding observations are used to evaluate prediction performance. Both prediction and selection performance of the proposed approach and its comparison with the uni-trait penalized-LMM are evaluated through simulation studies. We apply the proposed approach to a GWAS data from Genetic Analysis Workshop (GAW) 18.
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