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How to map introns to genes

2023-02-22 Haky Im
𝔽ind the mapping from intron ids to gene ids in this link https://uchicago.box.com/s/xy71r0su6refrfggivrwc7kpvsxysmmn […] Q: How should I interpret the z-score? Does a negative z-score for an intron imply that a decrease in the excision of that intron leads to an increase in the GWAS trait? … Read more →
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MetaXcan output file formats

2022-03-08 Festus
𝕋he MetaXcan Software hosts a suite of tools i.e PrediXcan, SPrediXcan, MultiXcan and SMultiXcan. This post describes the file format output from each tool. […] Individual-level data method to compute gene-trait associations. Detailed info The output is a tab delimited file which contains … Read more →
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Error for region (...) LinAlgError('SVD did not converge')

2021-07-23 PredictDB Team
𝕆ne step of the summary imputation, the computation of snp covariance matrix inverse, is performed via singular value decomposition (SVD). Numerical solutions to the SVD algorithm are not guaranteed to converge, and fail on some regions. When this happens, unmeasured zscores will not be present in … Read more →
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Error No intersection between model names in MetaXcan Results and Prediction Models

2021-07-23 Festus
𝕋his error happen when the strings captured from the metaxcan results and models don’t coincide A good example is when the metaxcan results' captured names looked like Aorta while the models' captured names looked like Artery_Aorta, this will result into this error […] … Read more →
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AttributeError 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups'

2021-07-21 Festus
𝕋his error happens when using the Multixcan tool, it usually happens when the tool cant find files in the Metaxcan folder you provided. Thus halting the process of meta analyzing the results. The most probable cause of this error are; […] –metaxcan_filter … Read more →
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Can I predict genes on chromosome X or Y?

2021-07-21 PredictDB Team
ℕot at the moment. Sex chromosome genes need to be handled differently than those on the autosomes, and do not fit into our existing analysis pipeline. Read more →
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Error low % of SNPs used

2021-07-21 Festus
𝕋here are different reasons where you could get a low % of SNPs in the model used with your individual level data or summary stats file. Some of the issues include; […] Little overlap between the model SNPs and genotype/summary stats SNPs […] Incomplete/malformed models .db file … Read more →
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How can I build my own prediction model?

2021-07-21 PredictDB Team
𝔽or elastic net models, you can find a tutorial here(https://github.com/hakyimlab/PredictDB-Tutorial) The newer GTEx v8 models were generaed with code available here. The documentation is still a work in progress, don’t hesitate to use the PrediXcan/MetaXcan Google Group to ask for support. … Read more →
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How do I query the prediction model db?

2021-07-21 PredictDB Team
𝕋he .db files are simple sqlite files. You can programmatically query them via python, R, perl, etc (using appropriate libraries). Find example queries in this link(https://github.com/hakyimlab/PrediXcan/blob/master/Software/query-db.Rmd) Read more →
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How was the covariance data calculated?

2021-07-21 PredictDB Team
𝔽or the GTEx models, we calculated the covariance of the SNP dosages within our training (GTEx) samples. For the DGN model, we used public genotype data from 1000 Genomes to calculate the covariance of the SNP dosages. Read more →