Parsimonious and powerful composite likelihood testing for group difference and genotype-phenotype association

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2016.12.004MaRDI QIDQ1658413zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhendong Huang, Davide Ferrari, Guoqi Qian

Publication date 14 August 2018

Published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05886

zbMATH Keywords

composite likelihoodWald testforward selectionSNPs association test

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08)

Abstract: Testing the association between a phenotype and many genetic variants from case-control data is essential in genome-wide association study (GWAS). This is a challenging task as many such variants are correlated or non-informative. Similarities exist in testing the population difference between two groups of high dimensional data with intractable full likelihood function. Testing may be tackled by a maximum composite likelihood (MCL) not entailing the full likelihood, but current MCL tests are subject to power loss for involving non-informative or redundant sub-likelihoods. In this paper, we develop a forward search and test method for simultaneous powerful group difference testing and informative sub-likelihoods composition. Our method constructs a sequence of Wald-type test statistics by including only informative sub-likelihoods progressively so as to improve the test power under local sparsity alternatives. Numerical studies show that it achieves considerable improvement over the available tests as the modeling complexity grows. Our method is further validated by testing the motivating GWAS data on breast cancer with interesting results obtained.

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