1 Summary

The analysis uses Genomic Structural Equation Modeling (GenomicSEM) to run a multivariate GWAS of 40 chemokines. The value of GenomicSEM lies in its ability to enhance statistical power and uncover pleiotropic effects that may remain undetected in pairwise or univariate analyses.

2 Data

2.1 UK Biobank Pharma Proteomics Project (UKB-PPP) Proteins

  • 40 chemokine summary statistics; Europeans; both GRCh19/38

  • I had previously obtained these (see https://rpubs.com/YodaMendel/1243451 for an example of how to programmatically get files from UKB-PPP.

3 Bioinformatic preprocessing

4 GenomicSEM preparation

4.1 Munge by chromsome

4.2 Move munged files to munged_40

4.3 Merge munged files for each protein

4.4 Add p-value back for generating “sumstats”

4.5 Generate “sumstats” for 40 chemokines

4.6 Multivariate LDSC on 40 chemokines

5 Determine number of factors

6 Six-factor multivariate GWAS