Components of GWAS summary data

  • genome wide
  • sample overlap
  • distribution of genetic effects
    • polygenic
    • following an evolutionary model
  • sparseness
  • genetic effects wrt LD patterns
  • winner’s curse - top hits have winner’s curse
  • large sample sizes
  • population structure
pop <- "EUR"
bfile <- paste0("/Users/gh13047/repo/mr-base-api/app/ld_files/", pop)

varref <- variant_reference(bfile)
regions <- get_regions(pop)

t1 <- Sys.time()
generate_ld_matrices(regions[1:2,], varref, bfile)
Sys.time()-t1

t1 <- Sys.time()
generate_ld_matrices2(regions[1:2,], varref, bfile)
Sys.time()-t1