Assessing the Power of Exome Chips

Christian Magnus Page, Sergio E Baranzini, Bjørn-Helge Mevik, Steffan Daniel Bos, Hanne F Harbo and Bettina Kulle Andreassen

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-13

Abstract: Genotyping chips for rare and low-frequent variants have recently gained popularity with the introduction of exome chips, but the utility of these chips remains unclear. These chips were designed using exome sequencing data from mainly American-European individuals, enriched for a narrow set of common diseases. In addition, it is well-known that the statistical power of detecting associations with rare and low-frequent variants is much lower compared to studies exclusively involving common variants. We developed a simulation program adaptable to any exome chip design to empirically evaluate the power of the exome chips. We implemented the main properties of the Illumina HumanExome BeadChip array. The simulated data sets were used to assess the power of exome chip based studies for varying effect sizes and causal variant scenarios. We applied two widely-used statistical approaches for rare and low-frequency variants, which collapse the variants into genetic regions or genes. Under optimal conditions, we found that a sample size between 20,000 to 30,000 individuals were needed in order to detect modest effect sizes (0.5% 1%) with 80% power. For small effect sizes (PAR

Date: 2015
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