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BDI Seminar: A Bayesian model-based approach to finding cell-type level associations in heterogeneous methylation samples
Epigenome-wide association studies are often performed using heterogeneous methylation samples, especially when there is no prior information as to which cell-types are disease associated. While much work has been done on estimating cell-type fractions and removing cell-type heterogeneity variation, relatively little work has been done on identifying cell-type specific variation in heterogeneous samples. In this talk I present a Bayesian model-based approach for making cell-type specific inferences in heterogeneous settings, by utilising a logistic transform to properly constrain parameters, and incorporating a prior knowledge of cell-type lineage via prior covariance structure. The approach was applied to the determination of sex-specific cell-type effects in methylation, where cell-type information was present as an independent verification of the results. The approach showed significant improvement in performance over previously used methods, particularly for detecting association in several rare cell-types. I outline current and future work on this problem, which leverages the flexibility of the Bayesian modelling approach by incorporating local methylation correlation and multiple data-types.
Date:
18 September 2017, 15:00
Venue:
Big Data Institute (NDM), Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details:
BDI LG Seminar Room 0
Speaker:
Daniel W Kennedy (ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS), School of Mathematical Sciences, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT))
Organising department:
Big Data Institute (NDM)
Organiser:
Natasha Bowyer (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Population Health)
Part of:
BDI seminars
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Natasha Bowyer
