ld_lasso: The main function of the LD LASSO method

In ldlasso: LD LASSO Regression for SNP Association Study

Description

The LD LASSO uses the correlation of SNP genotypes in a penalized least squares regression framework. The estimator is the solution to a convex optimization problem, and here we use the solution from the package quadprog.

Usage

ld_lasso(block.obj, block.cood = NA, Xa = NA, Y = NA, s1, s2, r2.cut = 0.5, delta =
1e-10, form = 3, ytype = 1, solve = TRUE )

Arguments

block.obj	An object of class gwaa.data from GenABEL.
block.cood	A vector of length p+1, where p is the number of SNPs. block.cood is an indicator vector that indicates block boundaries at all p+1 SNP bounded intervals. Use find.bounds to create this vector.
Xa	If block.obj is NA then a genotype matrix must be provided. Xa is a matrix of genotype values codes as 0, 1 or 2 for homozygous major, heterozygous, or homozygous minor, respectively.
Y	If block.obj is NA then a phenotype vector Y must be provided. Y is a vector of diagnoses, where 0 is non-diseased and 1 is diseased.
s1	The LASSO constraint parameter – the sum of the magnitude of the estimates is bounded by s1.
s2	The LD LASSO constraint parameter – the absolute difference of SNP pair estimates is bounded by s2 times the log of r-squared
r2.cut	Only SNP pairs with correlation greater than r2.cut are bounded by the LD LASSO constraint.
delta	Included so that optimization is numerically feasible in cases when r-squared = 1
form	Form of constraint matrix. form is either 1, 2 or 3: 1 for cpcc.vec <- 1e6*rep(1,length(r2)) – LASSO solution 2 for cpcc.vec <- -s2*log(r2) + delta, s1 <- 1e6 – LD fused solution 3 for cpcc.vec <- -s2*log(r2) + delta – LD LASSO
ytype	If ytype is 1 then Y is a vector of binary disease phenotypes, 0 for non-disease, 1 for diseased. If ytype is 2 then Y is the normalized log OR.
solve	logical variable indicating whether or not to solve regression problem. Useful when ld_lasso is used to construct constraint matrix, and the solution is not necessary, as in the selction of the r2 cutoff.

Details

This function performs the ld lasso regression with parameters s1, s2 and r2.cut on block.obj with haplotype block boundaries defined by block.cood.

Value

qp	List from the function solve.QP in the package quadprog. This object contains the solutions for c( beta, beta+, beta- ) and so the LD LASSO estimates are the first p elements, or qp$solution[1:p]
y	A vector of normalized log OR
A	The constraint matrix
r2	The vector of r-squared values used to define constraint matrix. Elements in this vector are the correlation estimates for all inter-block SNP pairs.
b0	The vector of ld lasso constraints with length 3p
OR	A vector of odds ratios

Author(s)

Samuel G. Younkin

References

D. Goldfarb and A. Idnani, "A numerically stable dual method for solving strictly convex quadratic programs," Mathematical Programming, vol. 27, pp. 1-33, 1983.

See Also

ld_lasso_method, quadprog, solve.QP

Examples

  data("ldlasso_example")
  ldlasso.test <- ld_lasso( block.obj, block.cood, s1 = 1, s2 = 0.5 )

ldlasso documentation built on May 30, 2017, 3:05 a.m.