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===VT META ANALYSIS===

===VT META ANALYSIS===

Including variants that are not associated to phenotype can hurt power. Variable threshold test is designed to choose the optimal allele frequency threshold amongst rare variants in a gene, to gain power. The test statistic can be easily reconstructed using single variant meta-analysis test statistic

Including variants that are not associated to phenotype can hurt power. Variable threshold test is designed to choose the optimal allele frequency threshold amongst rare variants in a gene, to gain power. The test statistic is defined as the maximum burden score statistic calculated using every possible frequency threshold

 

 

The burden test statistics under each frequency threshold can be

<math>T_{VT}=\max(T_{b\left(f_1\right)},T_{b\left(f_2\right)},\dots,T_{b\left(f_m\right)}),\text{ where}</math><math>T_{b\left(f_j\right)}=\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_j}^\mathbf{T}\sum_{i=1}^n{\mathbf{U_i}}\bigg/\sqrt{\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_j}^\mathbf{T}\left(\sum_{i=1}^n{\mathbf{V_i}}\right)\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_j}} </math>

<math>T_{VT}=\max(T_{b\left(f_1\right)},T_{b\left(f_2\right)},\dots,T_{b\left(f_m\right)}),\text{ where}</math><math>T_{b\left(f_j\right)}=\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_j}^\mathbf{T}\sum_{i=1}^n{\mathbf{U_i}}\bigg/\sqrt{\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_j}^\mathbf{T}\left(\sum_{i=1}^n{\mathbf{V_i}}\right)\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_j}} </math>