{"id":262953,"date":"2016-07-21T08:51:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&#038;p=262953"},"modified":"2020-04-15T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T22:45:39","slug":"fastlmm","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/fastlmm\/","title":{"rendered":"FaST-LMM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>NEW: Ludicrous speed LMM can run 1 million samples.<\/h2>\n<p>A version of FaST-LMM has now been optimized for use in the cloud and cloud sized data.\u00a0 If you are interested in reading about it, click <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/biorxiv.org\/content\/early\/2017\/06\/23\/154682\">here<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 If you are interested in using this, please click <a href=\"mailto:genomics@microsoft.com?Subject=GWAS%20use%20request&body=Please%20tell%20us%20a%20bit%20about%20your%20work.\">here<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> to\u00a0send an\u00a0email to genomics@microsoft.com with &#8220;GWAS use request&#8221; as the\u00a0subject.<\/p>\n<h3><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MicrosoftGenomics\/FaST-LMM\">Click here to download standard version of\u00a0FaST-LMM<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>FaST-LMM, (Factored Spectrally Transformed Linear Mixed Models) is a set of tools for efficiently performing genome-wide association studies (GWAS), prediction, and heritability estimation on large data sets. FaST-LMM runs on both Windows and Linux, and has been tested on data sets with over one million samples.<\/p>\n<p>The most up-to-date version of FaST-LMM is written in python and available on <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoftgenomics\">GitHub<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 It supports univariate GWAS [1, 4], tests for epistasis, corrections for cellular heterogeneity via the inclusion of\u00a0principal components [2], set association\u00a0tests [3], and heritability estimation [5].\u00a0 A C++ version, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=52614\">Windows binary<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=52588\">Linux binary<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=52559\">source<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, supports univariate GWAS and limited epistatic testing. Another version supporting corrections for cellular heterogeneity is available in <u>python <\/u>and <u>R<\/u>.\u00a0 An example of\u00a0FaST-LMM\u00a0with cloud computing is\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/machinelearning\/2016\/05\/27\/predicting-traits-from-genomic-data-using-the-microsoft-azure-linux-data-science-vm\/\">here<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Lippert, J. Listgarten, Y. Liu, C.M. Kadie, R.I. Davidson, D. Heckerman. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/v8\/n10\/abs\/nmeth.1681.html\">FaST linear mixed models for genome-wide association studies.<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> <em>Nature Methods<\/em>, 8: 833-835, Oct 2011 (doi:10.1038\/nmeth.1681).<\/p>\n<p>[2] Zou, C. Lippert, D. Heckerman, M. Aryee, J. Listgarten. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/NMETH.2815\">Epigenome-wide association studies without the need for cell-type composition.<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> <em>Nature Methods<\/em>, 11: 309\u2013311, Jan 2014 (doi:10.1038\/nmeth.2815).<\/p>\n<p>[3] Lippert, Jing Xiang, Danilo Horta, Christian Widmer, Carl M. Kadie, D. Heckerman, J. Listgarten. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2014\/09\/07\/bioinformatics.btu504\">Greater power and computational efficiency for kernel-based association testing of sets of genetic variants.<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> <em>Bioinformatics<\/em>, 30, July 2014 (doi: 10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu504).<\/p>\n<p>[4] Widmer, C. Lippert, O. Weissbrod, N. Fusi, C.M. Kadie, R.I. Davidson, J. Listgarten, and D. Heckerman. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/2014\/141112\/srep06874\/full\/srep06874.html\">Further Improvements to Linear Mixed Models for Genome-Wide Association Studies.<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> <em>Scientific Reports<\/em>, 4, 6874, Nov 2014 (doi:10.1038\/srep06874).<\/p>\n<p>[5] Heckerman, D. Gurdasani, C. Kadie, C. Pomilla, T. Carstensen, H. Martin, K. Ekoru, R.N. Nsubuga, G. Ssenyomo A. Kamali, P. Kaleebu, C. Widmer, and M.S. Sandhu. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/113\/27\/7377.abstract\">Linear mixed model for heritability estimation that explicitly addresses environmental variation<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. <em>PNAS<\/em>, 113: 7377\u20137382, July 2016 (doi: 10.1073\/pnas.1510497113).<\/p>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"moray-accordion\" data-show=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn-group align-items-center mb-g float-sm-right\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\trole=\"group\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-mount=\"collapse-controls\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-bi-aN=\"accordion-collapse-controls\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-target=\"#accordion-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn btn-link m-0\" aria-disabled=\"false\" aria-pressed=\"false\" data-action=\"expand\" type=\"button\" data-bi-cN=\"Expand all\">Expand all<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span aria-hidden=\"true\"> | <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn btn-link m-0\" aria-disabled=\"false\" aria-pressed=\"false\" data-action=\"collapse\" type=\"button\" data-bi-cN=\"Collapse all\">Collapse all<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"accordion\" id=\"accordion-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"m-0\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse m-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-mount=\"collapse\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-target=\"#collapse-2\"\n\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded=\"false\"\n\t\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"collapse-2\">\n\t\tClick here for a full annotated bibliography.\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"collapse\" id=\"collapse-2\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Univariate GWAS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] H. Kang, N. Zaitlen, C. Wade, A. Kirby, D. Heckerman, M. Daly, and E. Eskin, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.genetics.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/178\/3\/1709\">Efficient Control of Population Structure in Model Organism Association Mapping<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Genetics, 178:1709-1723, March, 2008 (doi: 10.1534\/genetics.107.080101).<\/p>\n<p>Describes early efforts to make linear mixed models more computationally efficient.<\/p>\n<p>[2] Lippert<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>, J. Listgarten<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>, Y. Liu, C.M. Kadie, R.I. Davidson, D. Heckerman<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>.\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/v8\/n10\/abs\/nmeth.1681.html\">FaST linear mixed models for genome-wide association studies<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<em>Nature Methods<\/em>, 8: 833-835, Oct 2011 (doi:10.1038\/nmeth.1681). (<sup>*<\/sup>equal contributions)<\/p>\n<p>Shows how exact linear-mixed-model computations can be performed in time and memory <em>linear<\/em> in the number of individuals when the number of SNPs used in the similarity matrix is less than the number of individuals (<em>i.e.,<\/em> when the similarity matrix is low rank). This work also describes an approach to select SNPs to achieve this condition with linkage-disequilibrium-based pruning. In addition, this work shows that computations are quadratic in time and memory when the similarity matrix is full rank.<\/p>\n<p>[3] J. Listgarten<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>, C. Lippert<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>, C.M. Kadie, R.I. Davidson, E. Eskin, D. Heckerman<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/v9\/n6\/abs\/nmeth.2037.html\">Improved linear mixed models for genome-wide association studies<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<em>Nature Methods<\/em>, 9: 525-526, June 2012 (doi:10.1038\/nmeth.2037). (<sup>*<\/sup>equal contributions)<\/p>\n<p>Describes a method for selecting SNPs for the linear-mixed-model similarity matrix by identifying SNPs that are predictive of the phenotype. A later publication [6] shows this approach yields poor control of type I error, whereas the original selection method in [2] performs well. This work also shows that the inclusion of irrelevant SNPs in the similarity matrix leads to inflated test statistics and reduced power, a phenomenon called \u201cdilution\u201d. Although an incorrect explanation for dilution is offered here, a correction is given in [5]. Finally, there is a bug in the analysis of the synthetic data, which makes the prediction-based selection method appear to perform better than it actually does.<\/p>\n<p>[4] J. Listgarten<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>, C. Lippert<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>, D. Heckerman<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ng\/journal\/v45\/n5\/abstract\/ng.2620.html\">FaST-LMM-Select for addressing confounding from spatial structure and rare variants<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<em>Nature Genetics <\/em>(2013) doi:10.1038\/ng.2620 (<sup>*<\/sup>equal contributions)<\/p>\n<p>Shows how the feature-selection method in [3] addresses an open problem in statistical genetics that had been published in Nature Genetics. Based on results in [6], however, we recommend that the selection approach in [2] be used instead.<\/p>\n<p>[5] C. Lippert<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>, Gerald Quon, Eun Youg Kang, Carl M. Kadie, J. Listgarten<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>, D. Heckerman<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>.\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/2013\/130509\/srep01815\/full\/srep01815.html\">The benefits of selecting phenotype-specific variants for applications of mixed models in genomics<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<em>Scientific Reports<\/em>(2013) doi:10.1038\/srep01815 (<sup>*<\/sup>equal contributions)<\/p>\n<p>Describes additional experiments regarding the feature-selection method in [3] as applied to GWAS and prediction. Again, based on the results in [6], we recommend that the selection approach in [2] be used instead.<\/p>\n<p>[6] C. Widmer*, C. Lippert*, O. Weissbrod, N. Fusi, C.M. Kadie, R.I. Davidson, J. Listgarten, and D. Heckerman*.\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/2014\/141112\/srep06874\/full\/srep06874.html\">Further Improvements to Linear Mixed Models for Genome-Wide Association Studies<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. <em>Scientific Reports<\/em>, 4, 6874, Nov 2014 (doi:10.1038\/srep06874). (<sup>*<\/sup>equal contributions)<\/p>\n<p>Describes the latest version of FaST-LMM. It shows that selecting SNPs for the linear-mixed-model similarity matrix through pruning via linkage disequilibrium (as in [2]) works well to control type I error, whereas selecting SNPs that are predictive of the phenotype (as in [3]) does not.<\/p>\n<p>[7] C. Lippert and D. Heckerman. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/xrds.acm.org\/article.cfm?aid=2788502\">Computational and statistical issues in personalized medicine<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. <em>XRDS<\/em> 21, 24-27, Summer 2015 (doi:10.1145\/2788502).<\/p>\n<p>Describes statistical issues in GWAS with linear mixed models from a graphical-model perspective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Set Tests\u00a0for GWAS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[8] Listgarten<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>, C. Lippert<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>, Eun Youg Kang, Jing Xiang, Carl M. Kadie, D. Heckerman<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>.\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/29\/12\/1526\">A powerful and efficient set test for genetic markers that handles confounders.<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> <em>Bioinformatics<\/em>, 29:1526-1533, April 2013 (doi:10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt177). (<sup>*<\/sup>equal contributions)<\/p>\n<p>Shows that the LRT can be more powerful than a score test for set association tests. This work is limited to similarity matrices that are low rank and includes an efficient algorithm for this case. This limitation is relaxed in [9].<\/p>\n<p>[9] C. Lippert, Jing Xiang, Danilo Horta, Christian Widmer, Carl M. Kadie, D. Heckerman*, J. Listgarten. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/30\/22\/3206\">Greater power and computational efficiency for kernel-based association testing of sets of genetic variants<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<em>Bioinformatics<\/em>, 2014 (doi: 10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu504). (*corresponding author)<\/p>\n<p>Makes theoretical arguments and demonstrates empirically that the LRT is often more powerful than the traditionally-used score test (e.g. SKAT). It also has exposition on how to do a number of algebraic computations for set tests with either a low- or full-rank background kernel efficiently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data Transformations\/Pre-processing for GWAS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[10] N. Fusi*, C. Lippert, N. D. Lawrence and O. Stegle*. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2014\/140919\/ncomms5890\/full\/ncomms5890.html\">Warped linear mixed models for the genetic analysis of transformed phenotypes<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. <em>Nature Communications<\/em>, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Shows how monotonically transforming the phenotype can increase power in genome-wide association studies and increase the accuracy of heritability estimation and phenotype prediction.<\/p>\n<p>[11] O. Weissbrod, C. Lippert, D. Geiger, and D. Heckerman.\u00a0 <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nmeth.3285.html\">Accurate liability estimation improves power in ascertained case-control studies<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 <em>Nature Methods<\/em>, Feb 2015 (doi:10.1038\/nmeth.3285).<\/p>\n<p>Describes an approach to pre-process ascertained case-control-study data that leads to improved power when analyzed with a linear mixed model.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Epigenetic Cellular Heterogeneity Correction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[12] Zou, C. Lippert, D. Heckerman, M. Aryee, Jennifer Listgarten.\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/v11\/n3\/abs\/nmeth.2815.html\">Epigenome-wide association studies without the need for cell-type composition<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<em>Nature Methods<\/em>, doi:10.1038\/NMETH.2815.<\/p>\n<p>Shows how FaST-LMM, with the inclusion of principal components (PCs) as covariates, can correct for the confounding effects of multiple cell types. Although a method for selecting PCs is presented here, the method in [6] is now recommended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Epistatic Genome-Wide Association<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[13] Lippert<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>, J. Listgarten<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>, Robert Davidson, Scott Baxter, Hoifung Poon, Carl M. Kadie, D. Heckerman<strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong>.\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/2013\/130122\/srep01099\/full\/srep01099.html\">An Exhaustive Epistatic SNP Association Analysis on Expanded Wellcome Trust Data<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <em>Scientific Reports<\/em>, 2013, doi:10.1038\/srep01099 (<sup>*<\/sup>equal contributions)<\/p>\n<p>Presents results for all pairwise-epistatic tests for all phenotypes in the WTCCC1 data, using a linear mixed model with a low-rank similarity matrix based on the feature-selection method in [3]. As described, based on the results in [6], we now recommend that the feature-selection method in [2] be used instead. The rank order of the hits may be approximately correct, and therefore we have left these results on the Azure marketplace <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/datamarket.azure.com\/dataset\/microsoftresearch\/epistasisgwas\">http:\/\/datamarket.azure.com\/dataset\/microsoftresearch\/epistasisgwas<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GWAS for\u00a0&#8220;functional traits&#8221;\u00a0such as longitudinal traits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[14] Fusi and J. Listgarten.\u00a0\u00a0Leveraging Non-Linear Genetic Effects on Functional Traits for GWAS,\u00a0<em>Proceedings of RECOMB 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Introduces a model for performing GWAS for\u00a0vector-valued traits which vary smoothly in time.\u00a0The\u00a0framework is expressive and\u00a0computationally efficient, but the null model is not nested inside of the\u00a0alternative model, something we are currently\u00a0addressing in ongoing work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heritability estimation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[15] N. Furlotte, D. Heckerman, and C. Lippert.\u00a0 <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/jhg\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/jhg201415a.html\">Quantifying the uncertainty in heritability<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 <em>Journal of Human Genetics<\/em> 27, March 2014 (doi: 10.1038\/jhg.2014.15).<\/p>\n<p>Applies the spectral-decomposition trick from FaST-LMM [2] to speed up Bayesian estimates of heritability.<\/p>\n<p>[16] Heckerman, D. Gurdasani, C. Kadie, C. Pomilla, T. Carstensen, H. Martin, K. Ekoru, R.N. Nsubuga, G. Ssenyomo A. Kamali, P. Kaleebu, C. Widmer, and M.S. Sandhu. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/113\/27\/7377.abstract\">Linear mixed model for heritability estimation that explicitly addresses environmental variation<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. <em>PNAS<\/em>, 113: 7377\u20137382 (doi: 10.1073\/pnas.1510497113).<\/p>\n<p>Describes a way to generalize linear mixed models to take spatial location into account when jointly modeling the influences of genomics and environment on traits.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW: Ludicrous speed LMM can run 1 million samples. 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