Using PLINK for Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and Data Analysis

2013 ◽  
pp. 193-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel E. Rentería ◽  
Adrian Cortes ◽  
Sarah E. Medland
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Association Studies ◽  
Genome Wide Association ◽  
Genome Wide Association Studies ◽  
Genome Wide

Genetic Data Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 358-372
Author(s):  
M. Shamila ◽  
Amit Kumar Tyagi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Association Studies ◽  
Single Gene ◽  
Genetic Data ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Genome Wide Association ◽  
Genome Wide Association Studies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Genetic Data Analysis

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) or genetic data analysis is used to discover common genetic factors which influence the health of human beings and become a part of a disease. The concept of using genomics has increased in recent years, especially in e-healthcare. Today there is huge improvement required in this field or genomics. Note that the terms genomics and genetics are not similar terms here. Basically, the human genome is made up of DNA, which consists of four different chemical building blocks (called bases and abbreviated A, T, C, and G). Based on this, we differentiate each and every human being living on earth. The term ‘genetics' originated from the Greek word ‘genetikos'. It means ‘origin'. In simple terms, genetics can be defined as a branch of biology, which deals with the study of the functionalities and composition of a single gene in an organism. There are mainly three branches of genetics, which include classical genetics, molecular genetics, and population genetics.

scholarly journals LMM-22: An Enhanced Linear Mixed Model (LMM) Approach for Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) for the Prediction of Diseases and Traits among Humans from Genomics Data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddharth Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Graphics Processing Units ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Linear Mixed Model ◽  
Association Studies ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Genome Wide Association ◽  
Genome Wide Association Studies ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Genome Wide

Increasingly, genomics is being used for the prediction of specific traits and diseases (phenotypes) among humans. Wider availability of genomics data through multiple research projects (such as International HapMap Project1 and 1000 Genomes2) has been a catalyst in that direction. With the recent advances in machine learning and big data analysis, data computation resources and data models needed for genomics data analysis are readily available. However, the prediction of traits and diseases has its own challenges in terms of computational requirements and computational analysis, statistical analysis (example: confounding variables), and limited quality of data collection. Linear Mixed Models (LMM, a type of linear regression) is a common approach for Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) for the prediction of common traits among humans using genomics. This paper researches the existing LMM-based approaches for Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS), describes the experiment performed on FaST-LMM approach from Microsoft Research, and then proposes an enhanced approach (called LMM-22) on how to address computational and statistical issues. LMM-22 focuses on the parallelization of LMM computations and execution of LMM-22 on General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPU) as against CPUs to accelerate the LMM approach for GWAS studies.

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