Thursday, March 13, 2025
3/13/2025
ABSTRACT Data tsunami in genomic medicine calls for robust and scalable methods for genome scale analysis of a large number of genetic variants regarding to their complicated impact on various human traits. A systematic analytical framework in this study presents a new opportunity to rigorously assess the low and high order effect of numerous genetic variants on a wide range of traits. The specific aims of our proposed project are as follows: Aim 1. Develop covariate-aware models for pairwise epistatic analysis on a categorical trait; Aim 2. Develop scalable methods for multilocus and multi-trait epistatic analysis; and Aim 3. Extensively evaluate the methods using genomic datasets and deploy a computational frame- work with a Web-portal service. This study has several innovations: 1) we will provide a “one-stop-shop” for comprehensive epistasis analysis of large-scale genomic datasets; 2) we will develop robust and scalable methods for dissecting main and epistatic effect of genetic variants on one or more traits of different types; 3) we will apply these methods to a variety of genomic datasets at different scales. The framework from our study will be flexible to include prospective large- scale genomic and epigenomic datasets in the future.
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