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  • A Bayesian mixed modeling a...
    Nustad, Haakon E; Page, Christian M; Reiner, Andrew H; Zucknick, Manuela; LeBlanc, Marissa

    BMC proceedings, 09/2018, Letnik: 12, Številka: Suppl 9
    Journal Article

    A Bayesian mixed model approach using integrated nested Laplace approximations (INLA) allows us to construct flexible models that can account for pedigree structure. Using these models, we estimate genome-wide patterns of DNA methylation heritability ( ), which are currently not well understood, as well as of blood lipid measurements. We included individuals from the Genetics of Lipid Lowering Drugs and Diet Network (GOLDN) study with Infinium 450 K cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) methylation and blood lipid data pre- and posttreatment with fenofibrate in families with up to three-generation pedigrees. For genome-wide patterns, we constructed 1 model per CpG with methylation as the response variable, with a random effect to model kinship, and age and gender as fixed effects. In total, 425,791 CpG sites pre-, but only 199,027 CpG sites posttreatment were found to have nonzero heritability. Across these CpG sites, the distributions of estimates are similar in pre- and posttreatment ( median = 0.31, interquartile range IQR = 0.16; median = 0.34, IQR = 0.20). Blood lipid estimates were similar pre- and posttreatment with overlapping 95% credibility intervals. Heritability was nonzero for treatment effect, that is, the difference between pre- and posttreatment blood lipids. Estimates for triglycerides are 0.48 (pre), 0.42 (post), and 0.21 (difference); likewise for high-density lipoprotein cholesterol the estimates are 0.61, 0.68, and 0.10. We show that with INLA, a fully Bayesian approach to estimate DNA methylation is possible on a genome-wide scale. This provides uncertainty assessment of the estimates, and allows us to perform model selection via deviance information criterion (DIC) to identify CpGs with strong evidence for nonzero heritability.