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Multi-ancestry fine-mapping improves precision to identify causal genes in transcriptome-wide association studies.
American journal of human genetics - 4 Aug 2022
Lu Zeyun, Gopalan Shyamalika, Yuan Dong, Conti David V, Pasaniuc Bogdan, Gusev Alexander, Mancuso Nicholas
Abstract excerpt
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) are a powerful approach to identify genes whose expression is associated with complex disease risk. However, non-causal genes can exhibit association signals due to confounding by linkage disequilibrium (LD) patterns and eQTL pleiotropy at genomic risk regions, which necessitates fine-mapping of TWAS signals. Here, we present MA-FOCUS, a multi-ancestry framework for...
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