Two-stage strategies to detect gene × gene interactions in case-control data
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Abstract
Large genetic association studies based on hundreds of thousands of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are a popular option for the study of complex diseases. The evaluation of gene x gene interactions in such studies is a sensible method of capturing important genetic effects. The number of tests required to consider all pairs of SNPs, however, can lead to a computational burden, and efficient strategies to reduce the number of tests performed are desirable. In this study, we compare two-stage strategies for pairwise SNP interactions testing. Those approaches rely on the selection of SNPs based on the single-locus test results obtained at the first stage. In the simultaneous approach, SNPs that fall below the marginal significance thresholds (p = 0.05 and p = 0.1) in stage 1 are selected and tested for within-group pairwise interaction in stage 2. With the conditional approach, SNPs that reach Bonferroni-adjusted significance at the first stage are tested in pairwise combinations with all SNPs in the data set. We compared the performance of those strategies by using Replicate 1 of the simulated data set of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 Problem 3. Most interactions detected resulted from SNP pairs within 1000 kb of each other. The remaining were false positives involving SNPs with excessively strong marginal signals. Our results highlight the need to account for locus proximity in the evaluation of interaction effects and emphasize the importance of marginal signal strength in logistic regression-based interaction modeling. We found that modeling additive genetic effects alone was sufficient to capture underlying dominance interaction effects in the data.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.047 | 0.083 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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