An R package to identify multi-snp effects in nuclear family studies using the GADGETS method


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Documentation for package ‘epistasisGA’ version 1.2.1

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case Genotypes for the affected children of case-parent triads.
case.gxe Genotypes for the cases of case-parent triads with a simulated gene environment interaction.
case.mci Genotypes for the affected cases of case-parent triads with a simulated maternal-fetal interaction.
chrom.fitness.score A function to assign a fitness score to a chromosome
combine.islands A function to combine GADGETS results for individual islands into a single dataset.
compute.graphical.scores A function to compute SNP-pair scores for network plots of results.
dad Genotypes for the fathers of case-parent triads.
dad.gxe Genotypes for the fathers of case-parent triads with a simulated gene environment interaction.
dad.mci Genotypes for the fathers of case-parent triads with a simulated maternal-fetal interaction.
epistasis.test A function to run a test of the null hypothesis that a collection of SNPs do not exhibit epistasis, conditional upon observed marginal SNP-disease associations.
epistasisGA 'epistasisGA' package
exposure Exposures for the cases of case-parent triads with a simulated gene environment interaction.
GADGETS A function to run the GADGETS method
global.test A function to run a global test of the null hypothesis that there are no SNP-disease associations across a range of chromosome sizes
GxE.fitness.score A function to assign an E-GADGETS (GxGxE) fitness score to a chromosome
GxE.test A function to run a test of interaction between a collection of SNPs and exposures (experimental).
mom Genotypes for the mothers of case-parent triads.
mom.gxe Genotypes for the mothers of case-parent triads with a simulated gene environment interaction.
mom.mci Genotypes for the mothers of case-parent triads with a simulated maternal-fetal interaction.
network.plot A function to plot a network of SNPs with potential multi-SNP effects.
permute.dataset A function to create permuted datasets for permutation based hypothesis testing.
preprocess.genetic.data A function to pre-process case-parent triad or disease-discordant sibling data.
run.gadgets A function to run the GADGETS algorithm to detect multi-SNP effects in case-parent triad studies.
snp.annotations RSID, REF, and ALT annotations for example dataset SNPs
snp.annotations.mci RSID, REF, and ALT annotations for example dataset SNPs