A Pathway Association Study Tool for GWAS Analyses of Metabolic Pathway Information

J Vis Exp. 2020 Jul 1:(161). doi: 10.3791/61268.

Abstract

Recently, a new implementation of a previously described method for interpreting genome-wide association study (GWAS) data using metabolic pathway analysis has been developed and released. The Pathway Association Study Tool (PAST) was developed to address concerns with user-friendliness and slow-running analyses. This new user-friendly tool has been released on Bioconductor and Github. In testing, PAST ran analyses in less than one hour that previously required twenty-four or more hours. In this article, we present the protocol for using either the Shiny application or the R console to run PAST.

Publication types

  • Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

  • Genome-Wide Association Study*
  • Humans
  • Linkage Disequilibrium / genetics
  • Metabolic Networks and Pathways* / genetics
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / genetics
  • Software*