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I took a brief look at the paper scanning for multiple hypothesis testing corrections. "Neandertal variants have been hypothesized to influence many phenotypes
by adenadel 11y ago
I took a brief look at the paper scanning for multiple hypothesis testing corrections.
"Neandertal variants have been hypothesized
to influence many phenotypes in AMHs, including
lipid metabolism, immunity, depression,
digestion, hair, and skin, on the basis of the enrichment
of Neandertal variants in regions of
the genome relevant to these traits. Accordingly, we first tested these hypotheses
using genome-wide complex trait analysis (GCTA)
to estimate the phenotypic risk explained by 1495 genotyped common (minor allele frequency
> 1%) Neandertal SNPs for a set of 46 highprevalence
phenotypes from the hypothesized
categories, using age, sex, and eMERGE site as
covariates."
When testing these 46 traits they controlled the FDR < 0.05 (false discovery rate). Then they replicated the associations in an independent sample.
The effect sizes are pretty small (1-2%), so having the explanatory variants won't have much bearing whether or not you'll get these complex traits.
- nerdponx 11y agoWas the only correlation that survived FDR control and the validation set? I'm also curious as to why ethnic origin wasn't a covariate.