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Give me your DNA and I tell you where you come from - and maybe more!

Give me your DNA and I tell you where you come from - and maybe more!. Sven Bergmann University of Lausanne & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics http://serverdgm.unil.ch/bergmann.

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Give me your DNA and I tell you where you come from - and maybe more!

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  1. Give me your DNA and I tell you where you come from - and maybe more! Sven Bergmann University of Lausanne & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics http://serverdgm.unil.ch/bergmann Lausanne, Genopode 21 April 2010

  2. Overview • Population stratification • Associations: Basics • Whole genome associations • Genotype imputation • Future directions

  3. Overview • Population stratification • Associations: Basics • Whole genome associations • Genotype imputation • Future directions

  4. Phenotypes Genotypes 159 measurement 144 questions 500.000 SNPs CoLaus = Cohort Lausanne 6’189 individuals Collaboration with:Vincent Mooser (GSK), Peter Vollenweider & Gerard Waeber (CHUV)

  5. ATTGCAATCCGTGG...ATCGAGCCA…TACGATTGCACGCCG… ATTGCAAGCCGTGG...ATCTAGCCA…TACGATTGCAAGCCG… ATTGCAAGCCGTGG...ATCTAGCCA…TACGATTGCAAGCCG… ATTGCAATCCGTGG...ATCGAGCCA…TACGATTGCACGCCG… ATTGCAAGCCGTGG...ATCTAGCCA…TACGATTGCAAGCCG… Genetic variation in SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms)

  6. Analysis of Genotypes only Principle Component Analysis reveals SNP-vectors explaining largest variation in the data

  7. Ethnic groups cluster according to geographic distances PC2 PC2 PC1 PC1

  8. PCA of POPRES cohort

  9. Predicting location according to SNP-profile ...

  10. … is pretty accurate!

  11. The Swiss segregate according to language

  12. Overview • Population stratification • Associations: Basics • Whole genome associations • Genotype imputation • Future directions

  13. Phenotypic variation:

  14. What is association? SNPs trait variant chromosome Genetic variation yields phenotypic variation Population with ‘ ’ allele Population with ‘ ’ allele Distributions of “trait”

  15. Association using regression phenotype genotype Coded genotype

  16. effect size (regression coefficient) (monotonic) transformation error (residual) p(β=0) phenotype (response variable) of individual i coded genotype(feature) of individual i Regression formalism Goal: Find effect size that explains best all (potentially transformed) phenotypesas a linear function of the genotypes and estimate the probability (p-value) for the data being consistent with the null hypothesis (i.e. no effect)

  17. Overview • Population stratification • Associations: Basics • Whole genome associations • Genotype imputation • Future directions

  18. Whole Genome Association

  19. Whole Genome Association Current microarrays probe ~1M SNPs! Standard approach: Evaluate significance for association of each SNP independently: significance

  20. Whole Genome Association Manhattan plot Quantile-quantile plot observedsignificance significance Chromosome & position Expected significance • GWA screens include large number of statistical tests! • Huge burden of correcting for multiple testing! • Can detect only highly significant associations (p < α / #(tests) ~ 10-7)

  21. Current insights from GWAS: • Well-powered (meta-)studies with (ten-)thousands of samples have identified a few (dozen) candidate loci with highly significant associations • Many of these associations have been replicated in independent studies

  22. Current insights from GWAS: • Each locus explains but a tiny (<1%) fraction of the phenotypic variance • All significant loci together explain only a small (<10%) of the variance David Goldstein: “~93,000 SNPs would be required to explain 80% of the population variation in height.” Common Genetic Variation and Human Traits, NEJM 360;17

  23. So what do we miss? • Other variants like Copy Number Variations or epigenetics may play an important role • Interactions between genetic variants (GxG) or with the environment (GxE) • Many causal variants may be rare and/or poorly tagged by the measured SNPs • Many causal variants may have very small effect sizes • Overestimation of heritabilities from twin-studies?

  24. Overview • Population stratification • Associations: Basics • Whole genome associations • Genotype imputation • Future directions

  25. Genotypes are called with varying uncertainty Intensity of Allele A Intensity of Allele G

  26. Some Genotypes are missing at all …

  27. … but are imputed with different uncertainties

  28. … using Linkage Disequilibrium! D 1 2 3 n Marker LD Markers close together on chromosomes are often transmitted together, yielding a non-zero correlation between the alleles.

  29. Two easy ways dealing with uncertain genotypes • Genotype Calling:Choose the most likely genotype and continue as if it is true(p11=10%, p12=20% p22=70% => G=2) • Mean genotype: Use the weighted average genotype(p11=10%, p12=20% p22=70% => G=1.6)

  30. Overview • Associations: Basics • Whole genome associations • Population stratification • Genotype imputation • Uncertain genotypes • Future directions

  31. Organisms Biological Insight Developmental Physiological Environmental Data types ? Experimental Clinical Conditions The challenge of many datasets: How to integrate all the information? • Protein expression • Tissue specific expression • Interaction data • Genotypic data • Epigenetic data …

  32. Network Approaches for Integrative Association Analysis Using knowledge on physical gene-interactions or pathways to prioritize the search for functional interactions

  33. Modular Approach for Integrative Analysis of Genotypes and Phenotypes Individuals Modular links Phenotypes Measurements SNPs/Haplotypes Genotypes

  34. Take-home Messages: • Analysis of genome-wide SNP data reveal population structure mirrors geography • Genome-wide association studies reveal candate loci for a multitude of traits, but have little predictive power so far • Future improvement will require • better genotyping (CGH, UHS, …) • New analysis approaches (interactions, networks, data integration)

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