Mitigating the Effects of Population Stratification in Gene-Gene Interaction Studies
Das, N.; Ueki, M.
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Population stratification is a major source of inflated false positive rates in genome wide association studies. However, relatively few studies have examined its impact on gene-gene interaction detection, despite the importance of epistasis for understanding the genetic architecture of complex traits. In this study, we identify scenarios under which population stratification can inflate the interaction test statistics. Through analytical derivations and simulation studies, we show that this inflation is not adequately controlled by including principal components as covariates in the regression model. We then propose an alternative approach that effectively controls the inflation of false-positive rates for interaction test statistics due to population stratification by using single nucleotide polymorphism-by-population structure interaction as an additional covariate term in the regression model.
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