General Information
| Description | Efficient variable selection using summary data from genome-wide association studies |
| Homepage | http://www.christianbenner.com |
Publications
FINEMAP: efficient variable selection using summary data from genome-wide association studies
Motivation
: The goal of fine-mapping in genomic regions associated with complex diseases and traits is to identify causal variants that point to molecular mechanisms behind the associations. Recent fine-mapping methods using summary data from genome-wide association studies rely on exhaustive search through all possible causal configurations, which is computationally expensive.
Results
: We introduce FINEMAP, a software package to efficiently explore a set of the most important causal configurations of the region via a shotgun stochastic search algorithm. We show that FINEMAP produces accurate results in a fraction of processing time of existing approaches and is therefore a promising tool for analyzing growing amounts of data produced in genome-wide association studies and emerging sequencing projects.
Availability and implementation
: FINEMAP v1.0 is freely available for Mac OS X and Linux at http://www.christianbenner.com .
Contact
: christian.benner@helsinki.fi or matti.pirinen@helsinki.fi
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