pheWAS {otargen}R Documentation

Retrieve PheWAS (Phenome Wide Association Studies) data for a variant.

Description

PheWAS (Phenome-wide association study) is a method that investigates the relationships between genetic variants and traits or phenotypes, helping in the study of their potential influence on multiple traits or diseases concurrently. This function retrieves the traits associated with a given variant in the UK Biobank, FinnGen, and/or GWAS Catalog summary statistics repository (only traits with a p-value less than 0.005 are returned).

Usage

pheWAS(variant_id)

Arguments

variant_id

Character: generated ID for variants by Open Targets Genetics (e.g. 1_154119580_C_A) or rsId (rs2494663).

Value

A data frame with PheWAS associations.

The output data frame contains the following columns:

References

Pendergrass, S A et al. “The use of phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS) for exploration of novel genotype-phenotype relationships and pleiotropy discovery.” Genetic epidemiology vol. 35,5 (2011): 410-22. doi:10.1002/gepi.20589

Examples

## Not run: 
result <- pheWAS(variant_id = "1_154549918_C_A")
result <- pheWAS(variant_id = "rs72698179")

## End(Not run)


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