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Activity Number: 484 - Methods for High-Dimensional Data in Genetics and Genomics
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 6, 2020 : 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section
Abstract #311052
Title: Covariate Adaptive Family-Wise Error Rate Control for Genome-Wide Association Studies
Author(s): Huijuan Zhou* and Xianyang Zhang and Jun Chen
Companies: Texas A&M University and Texas A&M University and Mayo Clinic
Keywords: EM algorithm; External covariates; Family-wise error rate; Multiple testing
Abstract:

Motivated by various applications in genomics studies where there are rich covariates that are informative of either the statistical power or the prior null probability, we propose a covariate adaptive family-wise error rate control procedure. We develop an efficient algorithm to implement the proposed method. We prove its asymptotic validity and obtain the convergence rate through a novel perturbation type argument. The numerical study shows that our procedure is more powerful than competing methods and maintains robustness across different settings. Finally, we apply the method to genome-wide association studies and demonstrate that our approach is capable of dealing with the big dataset and more competent to discover signals compared with existing methods.


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