Motivation: Mixed linear models provide important techniques for performing genome-wide association studies. However, current models have pitfalls associated with their strong assumptions. Here, we propose a new implementation designed to overcome some of these pitfalls using an empirical Bayes algorithm.
Results: Here we introduce NAM, an R package that allows user to take into account prior information regarding population stratification to relax the linkage phase assumption of current methods. It allows markers to be treated as a random effect to increase the resolution, and uses a sliding-window strategy to increase power and avoid double fitting markers into the model.
Availability and implementation: NAM is an R package available in the CRAN repository. It can be installed in R by typing install.packages ('NAM').
Contact: krainey@purdue.edu.
Supplementary information: Supplementary date are available at Bioinformatics online.
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