Integrating omics and MRI data with kernel-based tests and CNNs to identify rare genetic markers for Alzheimer's disease
For precision medicine and personalized treatment, we need to identify predictive markers of disease. We focus on Alzheimer's disease (AD), where magnetic resonance imaging scans provide information about the disease status. By combining imaging with genome sequencing, we aim at identifying rare genetic markers associated with quantitative traits predicted from convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which traditionally have been derived manually by experts. Kernel-based tests are a powerful tool for associating sets of genetic variants, but how to optimally model rare genetic variants is still an open research question. We propose a generalized set of kernels that incorporate prior information from various annotations and multi-omics data. In the analysis of data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), we evaluate whether (i) CNNs yield precise and reliable brain traits, and (ii) the novel kernel-based tests can help to identify loci associated with AD. The results indicate that CNNs provide a fast, scalable and precise tool to derive quantitative AD traits and that new kernels integrating domain knowledge can yield higher power in association tests of very rare variants.
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