SR-TWAS: Leveraging Multiple Reference Panels to Improve TWAS Power by Ensemble Machine Learning
Parrish, R. L.; Buchman, A. S.; Tasaki, S.; Wang, Y.; Avey, D.; Xu, J.; De Jager, P. L.; Bennett, D. A.; Epstein, M. P.; Yang, J.
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Multiple reference panels of a given tissue or multiple tissues often exist, and multiple regression methods could be used for training gene expression imputation models for TWAS. To leverage expression imputation models (i.e., base models) trained with multiple reference panels, regression methods, and tissues, we develop a Stacked Regression based TWAS (SR-TWAS) tool which can obtain optimal linear combinations of base models for a given validation transcriptomic dataset. Both simulation and real studies showed that SR-TWAS improved power, due to increased effective training sample sizes and borrowed strength across multiple regression methods and tissues. Leveraging base models across multiple reference panels, tissues, and regression methods, our real application studies identified 6 independent significant risk genes for Alzheimers disease (AD) dementia for supplementary motor area tissue and 9 independent significant risk genes for Parkinsons disease (PD) for substantia nigra tissue. Relevant biological interpretations were found for these significant risk genes.
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