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Multi-ancestry conditional and joint analysis (Manc-COJO) applied to GWAS summary statistics

Wang, X.; Wang, Y.; Visscher, P. M.; Wray, N. R.; Yengo, L.

2026-02-02 bioinformatics
10.64898/2026.01.30.702783 bioRxiv
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Conditional and joint (COJO) analysis of genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) independently associated with a trait is standard in post-GWAS pipelines. GWAS meta-analyses are increasingly conducted across multiple ancestry groups but how to perform COJO in a multi-ancestry context is not known. Here we introduce Manc-COJO, a method for multi-ancestry COJO analysis. Simulations and real-data analyses show that Manc-COJO improves the detection of independent association signals and reduces false positives compared to COJO and ad hoc adaptations for multi-ancestry use. We also introduce Manc-COJO:MDISA, a follow-up within ancestry algorithm to identify ancestry-specific associations after fitting Manc-COJO identified SNPs. The C++ implementation of Manc-COJO substantially improves on computational efficiency (for single ancestry >120 times faster than GCTA-COJO software) and supports linkage disequilibrium references derived either from individual-level genotype data or pre-computed matrices, facilitating analysis when data sharing is limited.

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