Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

mTADA is a framework for identifying risk genes from de novo mutations in multiple traits

  • Tan-Hoang Nguyen,
  • Amanda Dobbyn,
  • Ruth C. Brown,
  • Brien P. Riley,
  • Joseph D. Buxbaum,
  • Dalila Pinto,
  • Shaun M. Purcell,
  • Patrick F. Sullivan,
  • Xin He,
  • Eli A. Stahl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16487-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Joint analysis of multiple traits can increase power and provide insights into shared genetic architecture. Here, Nguyen et al. develop multi-trait TADA (mTADA), an extension of TADA (transmission and de novo association test) that jointly analyses de novo mutations of traits for improved risk-gene identification power.