Efficient and Flexible Integration of Variant Characteristics in Rare Variant Association Studies Using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation
Hana Sušak, Laura Serra, German M. Demidov, Raquel Rabionet, Laura Domènech, Mattia Bosio, Francesc Muyas, Xavier Estivill, Geòrgia Escaramís, Stephan Ossowski
The paper introduces BATI, a Bayesian rare variant association test that outperforms existing methods in detecting rare variants associated with complex diseases, especially when genetic variation explains little phenotypic variance.
PLoS Computational Biology · Feb 19, 2021Peer-reviewedBioinformatics