A POPULATION-AWARE RETROSPECTIVE REGRESSION TO DETECT GENOME-WIDE VARIANTS WITH SEX DIFFERENCE IN ALLELE FREQUENCY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wang, Zhong; Paters, Andrew D.; Sun, Lei
• 署名单位: National University of Singapore; University of Toronto; Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids); University of Toronto
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF APPLIED STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1932-6157
• DOI: 10.1214/23-AOAS1825
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1113-1136
• 关键词: association; chromosome; tests

摘要

Sex difference in allele frequency is an emerging topic that is crucial to our understanding of data quality and features, particularly when it comes to the largely overlooked X chromosome. To detect sex differences in allele frequency for both X chromosomal and autosomal variants, the existing method is conservative when applied to samples from multiple ancestral populations. Additionally, it remains unexplored whether the sex difference in allele frequency varies between populations, which is important for transancestral genetic studies. To answer these questions, we thus developed a novel, retrospective regression-based testing framework that led to interpretable and easy-to-implement solutions. We then applied the proposed methods to the high-coverage whole genome sequence data of the 1000 Genomes Project, robustly analyzing all samples available from the five super-populations. We had 97 novel findings by recognizing and modelling ancestral differences. Finally, we replicated the specific findings and overall conclusion using the gnomAD v3.1.2 data.