Bayesian genetic association analysis of all rare diseases in the Kids First cohort

Kids First 队列中所有罕见疾病的贝叶斯遗传关联分析

• 批准号: 10643463
• 负责人: Ernest Turro
• 金额: $ 16.9万
• 依托单位: ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-21 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10643463
• 关键词: Affect; Authorization documentation; Bioinformatics; Bite; Child; Clinical Data; Collaborations; Collection; Complex; Computing Methodologies; Congenital Abnormality; Congenital Disorders; Credentialing; Data; Data Set; Databases; Discipline; Disease; Etiology; Foundations; Gene Frequency; Genes; Genetic; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Genome; Genotype; Hereditary Disease; Heterozygote; Human; Individual; Malignant Childhood Neoplasm; Methods; Minor; Molecular; Natural Selections; Nature; Ontology; Participant; Pathogenicity; Patients; Pediatric Cardiac Genomics Consortium; Persons; Phenotype; Probability; Rare Diseases; Research; Resources; Sampling; Side; Statistical Data Interpretation; Statistical Methods; Transcript; Validation; Variant; Work; authority; clinical phenotype; cohort; data access; database schema; experience; forging; genetic analysis; genetic association; genetic pedigree; genetic variant; genome sequencing; genome wide association study; indexing; insertion/deletion mutation; light weight; novel; portability; proband; programs; rare variant; relational database; web app; web interface; whole genome

Rare diseases affect 1 in 20 people, but fewer than half of the ⇠10,000 catalogued rare diseases have a re- solved genetic etiology. Genetic association analyses of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data from large, phenotypically diverse collections of rare disease patients enhance the discovery of novel etiologies, compared to within-study analyses, by increasing the probability of multiple cases sharing a genetic etiology and by boost- ing the number of controls (Turro et al., Nature 2020). The Gabriella Miller Kids First (KF) program has germline WGS data from 20 studies on 18,547 probands or relatives of probands with a birth defect or pediatric cancer. However, due to the bioinformatic and statistical challenges of analyzing such large and complex WGS datasets, a comprehensive cross-cutting genetic association analysis has never been performed. We present a research program of computational and statistical approaches to uncover novel germline etiologies of rare diseases in KF and replicate them in other cohorts to which we have access. In Aim 1, we will build a compact and portable relational database containing a sparse representation of all the rare variant genotypes in the KF WGS data. Due to natural selection, almost all pathogenic variants responsible for rare congenital or hereditary disorders are rare and will thus be included. We will annotate the variants with scores reflecting their predicted deleteriousness and their minor allele frequencies, and with their predicted molecular consequences. We will load sample-specific information into the database, including pedigree membership, membership of a maximal set of unrelated partic- ipants (MSUP) and group memberships for case/control association analyses. In Aim 2, we will develop a web application allowing authenticated users to browse variants by gene or sample. The web interface will allow users to click on sample IDs directly in a table of genotypes to view the phenotypes of individuals who are heterozy- gous, homozygous or compound heterozygous for a given consequence class of rare variants in a side panel. The application will also host and display the results of inference, such as posterior probabilities of association (PPAs), posterior probabilities over the mode of inheritance, posterior probabilities over the consequence class of pathogenic variants and posterior probabilities of the pathogenicities of variants. The application will be accessi- ble by authorized collaborating experts across disciplines. In Aim 3, we will obtain a PPA between each gene and each of a collection of case sets in KF in accordance with each study's data restrictions, if any. We will determine the case sets using Mondo Disease Ontology and Human Phenotype Ontology terms assigned to cases. We will select probands in a given case set using pedigree information and compare them to participants not in the case set who are in other pedigrees and in the MSUP. We will attempt to replicate findings with a PPA >0.95 in our previously deployed databases encompassing >100,000 individuals and using GeneMatcher. The deployment of powerful, lightweight and portable analytical frameworks across different patient collections, promises to advance etiological discovery and replication of the remaining unknown causes of congenital disorders.

每20人中就有1人患有罕见疾病，但在10000种罕见疾病中，只有不到一半的人患有罕见疾病