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Before you begin:

  • Make sure that R is installed on your computer
  • For this lab, we will use the following R libraries:
library(data.table)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(GWASTools)
library(ggplot2)

The R template to do the exercises is here.

Note: if on the online server, set your working directory to your home directory using in R

setwd("home/<username>/")

The data files are in the folder /data/SISG2023M15/data/.

GWAS in Samples with Structure & Using REGENIE

Introduction

We will be analyzing a simulated data set which contains sample structure to better understand the impact it can have in GWAS analyses if not accounted for. We will perform GWAS on a quantitative phenotype which was simulated to have high heritability and be highly polygenic.

The file “sim_rels_pheno.txt”” contains the phenotype measurements for a set of individuals and the file “sim_rels_geno.bed” is a binary file in PLINK BED format with accompanying BIM and FAM files which contains the genotype data at null variants (i.e. simulated as not associated with the phenotype).
How should we expect the QQ/Manhatthan plots to look like under this scenario?

Exercises

Here are some things to try:

  1. Examine the dataset:
  • How many samples are present?
  • How many SNPs? In how many chromosomes?
  1. Examine the phenotype data:
  • How many individuals in the study have measurements?
  • Make a visual of the distribution of the phenotype.
  1. Using PLINK, perform a GWAS using the phenotype file sim_rels_pheno.txt and the sim_rels_geno.{bed,bim,fam} genotype files. Only perform association test on SNPs that pass the following quality control threshold filters:
  • minor allele frequency (MAF) > 0.01
  • at least a 99% genotyping call rate (less than 1% missing)
  • HWE p-values greater than 0.001

The basic command would look like

system("/data/SISG2023M15/exe/plink2 --bfile /data/SISG2023M15/data/sim_rels_geno --pheno /data/SISG2023M15/data/sim_rels_pheno.txt --pheno-name <pheno_name> --maf <min_MAF> --geno <max_miss> --hwe <hwe_p_thresh> --glm allow-no-covars --out <output_prefix>")
  1. Make a Manhattan plot of the association results using the manhattanPlot() R function. The basic command would look like
manhattanPlot(
  p = <pvalues>,
  chromosome = <chromosomes>, 
  thinThreshold = 1e-4,
  main= <title>
)
  1. Make a Q-Q plot of the association results using the qqPlot() R function. The basic command would look like
qqPlot(
  pval = <pvalues>,
  thinThreshold = 1e-4,
  main= <title>
 )
  1. Compute the genomic control inflation factor \(\lambda_{GC}\) based on the p-values. (Hint: convert p-values to \(\chi^2_1\) test statistics using the R function qchisq()). Is there evidence of possible inflation due to confounding?

  2. Now use REGENIE to perform a GWAS of the phenotype using a whole genome regression model.

  • We want to use high quality variants in the Step 1 null model fitting. Using PLINK, apply QC filters to remove variants with MAF below 5%, missingness above 1%, HWE p-value below 0.001, minor allele count (MAC) below 20. (hint: use --write-snplist to store list of variants passing QC without making a new BED file)

  • Run REGENIE Step 1 to fit the null model and obtain polygenic predictions using a leave-one-chromosome-out (LOCO) scheme. The basic command would look like

system("/data/SISG2023M15/exe/regenie --bed /data/SISG2023M15/data/sim_rels_geno --phenoFile /data/SISG2023M15/data/sim_rels_pheno.txt --step 1 --loocv --bsize 1000 --qt --extract <plink_QC_pass_snplist> --out <output_prefix_step1>")
  • Run REGENIE Step 2 to perform association testing at the same set of SNPs tested in PLINK. The basic command would look like
system("/data/SISG2023M15/exe/regenie --bed /data/SISG2023M15/data/sim_rels_geno --phenoFile /data/SISG2023M15/data/sim_rels_pheno.txt --step 2 --bsize 400 --qt  --pred <output_prefix_step1>_pred.list --extract <plink_GWAS_snplist> --out <output_prefix_step2>")
  • Generate Manhatthan and Q-Q plots based on the association results and compute \(\lambda_{GC}\). Compare with output from Questions 4-6.

sessionInfo()
R version 4.3.0 (2023-04-21)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Ventura 13.4

Matrix products: default
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