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The analysis of genomewide SNP data using nonparametric and kernel machine regression

Kirdwichai, P. and Baksh, M. F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3107-8815 (2019) The analysis of genomewide SNP data using nonparametric and kernel machine regression. The Journal of Applied Science, 18 (1). pp. 20-30. ISSN 2586-9663

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To link to this item DOI: 10.14416/j.appsci.2019.02.003

Abstract/Summary

This paper illustrates novel use of nonparametric regression in the challenging problem of reliably identifying true association patterns in high dimensional data without the cost, inherent in existing methods, of increasing the false positives. The proposed nonparametric association test (NPAT) treats p-values from multiple hypothesis tests as summaries of association that preserves the correlation in the data and capitalises on this correlation to increase power while minimising false discoveries, relative to existing methods. Distributional results are used to support estimation of the tuning parameter and significance thresholds for NPAT. The method is applied to the WTCCC study of Crohn's disease and results compared with a sequence kernel association test (SKAT) that conversely uses nonparametric regression techniques to group sets of explanatory variables, prior to association testing. Results show that NPAT is efficient, computationally tractable and produces findings comparable with Bonferroni correction while SKAT misses a strong association signal in the data.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Statistics > Applied Statistics
ID Code:102130
Publisher:King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok

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