Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Model-based assessment of replicability for genome-wide association meta-analysis

  • Daniel McGuire,
  • Yu Jiang,
  • Mengzhen Liu,
  • J. Dylan Weissenkampen,
  • Scott Eckert,
  • Lina Yang,
  • Fang Chen,
  • GWAS and Sequencing Consortium of Alcohol and Nicotine Use (GSCAN),
  • Arthur Berg,
  • Scott Vrieze,
  • Bibo Jiang,
  • Qunhua Li,
  • Dajiang J. Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21226-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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In genome-wide association meta-analysis, it is often difficult to find an independent dataset of sufficient size to replicate associations. Here, the authors have developed MAMBA to calculate the probability of replicability based on consistency between datasets within the meta-analysis.