References
Benner A, Zucknick M, Hielscher T, Ittrich C, Mansmann U (2010) High-dimensional cox models: the choice of penalty as part of the model building process. Biom J 52(1):50–69
Boyle EA, Li YI, Pritchard JK (2017) An expanded view of complex traits: from polygenic to omnigenic. Cell 169(7):1177–1186
Meinshausen N (2008) Hierarchical testing of variable importance. Biometrika 95(2):265–278
Park JH, Wacholder S, Gail MH, Peters U, Jacobs KB, Chanock SJ, Chatterjee N (2010) Estimation of effect size distribution from genome-wide association studies and implications for future discoveries. Nat Genet 42(7):570
Sullivan PF, Daly MJ, O’Donovan M (2012) Genetic architectures of psychiatric disorders: the emerging picture and its implications. Nat Rev Genet 13(8):537–551. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg3240
Vukcevic D, Hechter E, Spencer C, Donnelly P (2011) Disease model distortion in association studies. Genet Epidemiol 35(4):278–290
Wu MC, Lee S, Cai T, Li Y, Boehnke M, Lin X (2011) Rare-variant association testing for sequencing data with the sequence kernel association test. Am J Hum Genet 89(1):82–93
Yang J, Benyamin B, McEvoy BP, Gordon S, Henders AK, Nyholt DR, Madden PA, Heath AC, Martin NG, Montgomery GW (2010) Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height. Nat Genet 42(7):565
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Publisher's Note
Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
JJG was supported by NWO VIDI Grant 639.072.412.
This comment refers to the invited paper available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-019-00939-2.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Goeman, J.J., Böhringer, S. Comments on: Hierarchical inference for genome-wide association studies by Jelle J. Goeman and Stefan Böhringer. Comput Stat 35, 41–45 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-019-00943-6
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-019-00943-6