GAS2
GAS2: Evaluating Statistical Significance in Two-Stage Genomewide Association Studies
The program gas2.f is written in standard FORTRAN-77. No external subroutines or functions are used. All the data are stored in the array A, whose dimension may be modified according to the memory constraint of your machine and the size of your data. Most machines will not allow a very large number of markers. To alleviate the problem of memory constraint, it is advised that the program be run on each chromosome separately.
Input
The program requires two separate groups of input: the data input and the control parameters input. Each record in the data file provides the trait value, followed by the genotype scores for the markers. Under the dominant model, the genotype score is 1 if the subject has at least one minor allele and 0 otherwise; under the recessive model, the genotype score is 1 if the subject has two minor alleles and 0 otherwise; under the additive model, the genotype score is the number of minor alleles. The genotype score is set to 9 if its value is unknown. The records for the subjects that are genotyped in stage 1 should appear first in the data file. The data should be in free format, i.e., the data items are separated by spaces or commas.
The control parameters described below are given in the file gas2.dat.
| Parameter | Type |
|---|---|
| problem title | character |
| file name of data input | character |
| file name of program output | character |
| total number of subjects | integer |
| total number of markers | integer |
| number of subjects in stage 1 | integer |
| critical value for stage 1 | real |
| number of Monte Carlo samples | integer |
Output
Computational results are written to the output file specified by the user. For each marker, the output shows the observed value of the chi-squared test statistic, the (unadjusted) p-value, the p-values adjusted for multiple testing. Two adjusted p-values are presented: one is based on Holm’s step-down procedure (a slightly less conservative version of the Bonferroni correction), and one is based on the Monte Carlo procedure described in Lin (2006). Only the markers whose Monte Carlo adjusted p-values are less than 0.5 are displayed.
Test data set
The file test.dat contains a test data set simulated from the HapMap data. The control parameters are given in gas2.dat and the output file is test.out
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Updated 10/18/2006 ยป gas2.zip