Genome-wide analysis of late-onset Alzheimer's disease using intergenerational, multi-trait, and cross-ancestry data

使用代际、多特征和跨血统数据对迟发性阿尔茨海默病进行全基因组分析

• 批准号: 10611418
• 负责人: Patrick Ansel Turley
• 金额: $ 24.9万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10611418
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Affect; Age; Aging; Alleles; Alzheimer' s Disease; Alzheimer' s disease risk; American; Attenuated; Automobile Driving; Award; Biological; Biology; Case/Control Studies; Cause of Death; Characteristics; Classification; Code; Cohort Studies; Complex; Computer software; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data; Data Analyses; Data Sources; Dementia; Development; Diagnosis; Disease; Documentation; Early Diagnosis; Early treatment; Education; Educational workshop; Environment; Epidemiology; Ethnic Origin; European ancestry; Feedback; Foundations; Genes; Genetic; Genetic Annotation; Genetic Diseases; Genetic study; Heritability; Human; Individual; Late Onset Alzheimer Disease; Leadership; Life; Linkage Disequilibrium; Mental Depression; Mentors; Meta-Analysis; Methods; Monitor; Parents; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Phase; Phenotype; Population; Population Genetics; Postdoctoral Fellow; Proxy; Publishing; Research; Research Personnel; Rest; Risk; Sample Size; Sampling; Schizophrenia; Source; Structure; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Variant; Work; apolipoprotein E-4; biobank; case control; data tools; disease classification; disorder risk; experience; genetic architecture; genetic pedigree; genetic variant; genome wide association study; genome-wide; genome-wide analysis; improved; interest; intergenerational; large scale data; novel; recruit; skills; statistics; success; symposium; timeline; trait

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD) affects a large portion of the human population and is highly heritable, though due to the difficulty of acquiring well-phentoyped data, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of LOAD have had limited success in identifying associated genes. Additional statistical power would likely produce many discoveries related to the biology of LOAD, as it has for other complex phenotypes. This research plan proposes alternate data sources and new methods to increase the statistical power in genetic studies of LOAD. First, because LOAD is diagnosed late in life, large, cross-sectional studies cannot easily classify individuals as cases or controls. This limitation can be somewhat attenuated using pedigree information, as is done in the existing method, GWAX. Dr. Turley will extend GWAX to account for case-status, age, and other characteristics of both parents. These results will be meta-analyzed with available case-control- based results using Multi-Trait Analysis of GWAS (MTAG), leading to substantial gains in power and reduced risk of bias due to misclassification of cases. Second, LOAD and educational attainment (EA) have a genetic correlation of -0.3, suggesting that they may be associated with both common and unique biological pathways. Dr. Turley will seek to better understand LOAD by classifying and analyzing SNPs that are either jointly or uniquely associated with LOAD using Bayes-MTAG, an extension of MTAG that he is developing. Third, a lack of non-European GWAS cohorts have resulted in polygenic scores that perform poorly in those populations. Dr. Turley will develop Multi-Ancestry Meta-Analysis (MAMA), a trans-ethnic meta-analysis extension of MTAG that accounts for differences in linkage disequilibrium and genetic architecture across ancestries, to improve prediction of LOAD in non-European populations. The methods developed in each of these aims will increase statistical power, identifying novel loci, elucidating biological pathways, and improving polygenic prediction. Under the guidance his mentor, Dr. Benjamin Neale, his co-mentor, Dr. Xihong Lin, and a team of other advisers, Dr. Turley will pursue a rigorous program of training to accomplish the aims of this proposal and to develop into an independent researcher. The domains of this training include (i) epidemiology and genetics of aging, (ii) statistical and population genetics, (iii) large-scale data analysis and tools, and (iv) professional development. Development in these domains will be accomplished through coursework, attendance at conferences and workshops, experience leading teams and mentoring others, and regular feedback from his committee. Most importantly, the plan includes a detailed timeline, but which Dr. Turley and his mentoring team can monitor and evaluate progress. Overall, the training environment for the candidate is excellent, the mentors and advisors are world-class, the proposed studies address a crucial and timely unmet need, and the additional skills developed during this award will undoubtedly provide a strong foundation for the candidate to establish independent leadership in Alzheimer’s disease and statistical genetics.

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