Identifying Genetic Variants for Obesity: A Knowledge Integration Quantile Regression (KIQR) Approach for Ultra-High-Dimensional Data
面向肥胖遗传变异的超高维数据知识整合分位数回归方法
Obesity is widely recognized as a serious and pervasive health concern. We study obesity through body mass index (BMI), which is known to be highly heritable, and identify important genetic risk factors for BMI from hundreds of thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the Framingham Study data. Several challenges arise when using traditional genome-wide association studies (GWAS): (1) They suffer from a low power due to a combination of a limited number of…