In this repository, the R package RAINBOWR is available. Here, we describe how to install and how to use RAINBOWR.

RAINBOWR(Reliable Association INference By Optimizing Weights with R) is a package to perform several types of GWAS as follows.

• Single-SNP GWAS by RGWAS.normal function
• SNP-set (, haplotype-block, or gene-set) GWAS by RGWAS.multisnp function (which tests multiple SNPs at the same time)
• Check epistatic (SNP-set x SNP-set interaction) effects by RGWAS.epistasis (very slow and less reliable)
• Single-SNP GWAS including tests for interaction with genetic background by RGWAS.normal function
• SNP-set (, haplotype-block, or gene-set) GWAS including tests for interaction with genetic background (or epistatic effects with polygenes) by RGWAS.multisnp function (which tests multiple SNPs at the same time)

RAINBOWR also offers some functions to solve the linear mixed effects model.

• Solve multi-kernel linear mixed effects model with EM3.general function (using gaston, MM4LMM, or RAINBOWR packages; fast for gaston and MM4LMM)
• Solve one-kernel linear mixed effects model with EMM.cpp function
• Solve multi-kernel linear mixed effects model with EM3.cpp function (for the general kernel, not so fast)
• Solve multi-kernel linear mixed effects model with EM3.linker.cpp function (for the linear kernel, fast)

By utilizing these functions, you can estimate the genomic heritability and perform genomic prediction (GP).

Finally, RAINBOWR offers other useful functions.

• qq and manhattan function to draw Q-Q plot and Manhattan plot
• modify.data function to match phenotype and marker genotype data
• CalcThreshold function to calculate thresholds for GWAS results
• See function to see a brief view of data (like head function, but more useful)
• genetrait function to generate pseudo phenotypic values from marker genotype
• SS_GWAS function to summarize GWAS results (only for simulation study)
• estPhylo and estNetwork functions to estimate phylogenetic tree or haplotype network and haplotype effects with non-linear kernels for haplotype blocks of interest.
• convertBlockList function to convert haplotype block list estimated by PLINK to the format which can be inputted as a gene.set argument in RGWAS.multisnp, RGWAS.multisnp.interaction, and RGWAS.epistasis functions.

The stable version of RAINBOWR is now available at the CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network). The latest version of RAINBOWR is also available at the KosukeHamazaki/RAINBOWR repository in the GitHub, so please run the following code in the R console.

#### Stable version of RAINBOWR ####
install.packages("RAINBOWR")  


#### Latest version of RAINBOWR ####
### If you have not installed yet, ...
install.packages("devtools")  

### Install RAINBOWR from GitHub
devtools::install_github("KosukeHamazaki/RAINBOWR")

If you get some errors via installation, please check if the following packages are correctly installed. (We removed a dependency on rgl package!)

Rcpp,      # also install `Rtools` for Windows user
plotly,    # Suggests
Matrix,
cluster,
MASS,
pbmcapply,
optimx,
methods,
ape,
stringr,
pegas,
ggplot2,     # Suggests
ggtree,      # Suggests, install from Bioconducter with `BiocManager::install("ggtree")`
scatterpie,  # Suggests
phylobase,   # Suggests
haplotypes,  # Suggests
rrBLUP,
expm,
here,        # Suggests
htmlwidgets,
Rfast,
adegenet,    # Suggests
gaston,
MM4LMM,
furrr,       # Suggests
future,      # Suggests
progressr,   # Suggests
foreach,     # Suggests, but stongly recommend the installation for Windows user to parallel computation
doParallel,  # Suggests
data.table   # Suggests

In RAINBOWR, since part of the code is written in Rcpp (C++ in R), please check if you can use C++ in R. For Windows users, you should install Rtools.

If you have some questions about installation, please contact us by e-mail ([email protected]).

First, import RAINBOWR package and load example datasets. These example datasets consist of marker genotype (scored with {-1, 0, 1}, 1,536 SNP chip (Zhao et al., 2010; PLoS One 5(5): e10780)), map with physical position, and phenotypic data (Zhao et al., 2011; Nature Communications 2:467). Both datasets can be downloaded from Rice Diversity homepage (http:https://www.ricediversity.org/data/). Also, the dataset includes a list of haplotype blocks from the version 0.1.30. This list was estimated by the PLINK 1.9 (Taliun et al., 2014; BMC Bioinformatics, 15).

### Import RAINBOWR
require(RAINBOWR)

### Load example datasets
data("Rice_Zhao_etal")
Rice_geno_score <- Rice_Zhao_etal$genoScore
Rice_geno_map <- Rice_Zhao_etal$genoMap
Rice_pheno <- Rice_Zhao_etal$pheno
Rice_haplo_block <- Rice_Zhao_etal$haploBlock

### View each dataset
See(Rice_geno_score)
See(Rice_geno_map)
See(Rice_pheno)
See(Rice_haplo_block)

You can check the original data format by See function. Then, select one trait (here, Flowering.time.at.Arkansas) for example.

### Select one trait for example
trait.name <- "Flowering.time.at.Arkansas"
y <- Rice_pheno[, trait.name, drop = FALSE]

For GWAS, first you can remove SNPs whose MAF <= 0.05 by MAF.cut function.

### Remove SNPs whose MAF <= 0.05
x.0 <- t(Rice_geno_score)
MAF.cut.res <- MAF.cut(x.0 = x.0, map.0 = Rice_geno_map)
x <- MAF.cut.res$x
map <- MAF.cut.res$map

Next, we estimate additive genomic relationship matrix (GRM) by using calcGRM function.

### Estimate genomic relationship matrix (GRM) 
K.A <- calcGRM(genoMat = x)

Next, we modify these data into the GWAS format of RAINBOWR by modify.data function.

### Modify data
modify.data.res <- modify.data(pheno.mat = y, geno.mat = x, map = map,
                               return.ZETA = TRUE, return.GWAS.format = TRUE)
pheno.GWAS <- modify.data.res$pheno.GWAS
geno.GWAS <- modify.data.res$geno.GWAS
ZETA <- modify.data.res$ZETA

### View each data for RAINBOWR
See(pheno.GWAS)
See(geno.GWAS)
str(ZETA)

ZETA is a list of genomic relationship matrix (GRM) and its design matrix.

Finally, we can perform GWAS using these data. First, we perform single-SNP GWAS by RGWAS.normal function as follows.

### Perform single-SNP GWAS
normal.res <- RGWAS.normal(pheno = pheno.GWAS, geno = geno.GWAS,
                           ZETA = ZETA, n.PC = 4, skip.check = TRUE, P3D = TRUE)
See(normal.res$D)  ### Column 4 contains -log10(p) values for markers
### Automatically draw Q-Q plot and Manhattan by default.

Next, we perform SNP-set GWAS by RGWAS.multisnp function.

### Perform SNP-set GWAS (by regarding 11 SNPs as one SNP-set)
SNP_set.res <- RGWAS.multisnp(pheno = pheno.GWAS, geno = geno.GWAS, ZETA = ZETA, 
                              n.PC = 4, test.method = "LR", kernel.method = "linear", 
                              gene.set = NULL, skip.check = TRUE, 
                              test.effect = "additive", window.size.half = 5, window.slide = 11)

See(SNP_set.res$D)  ### Column 4 contains -log10(p) values for markers

You can perform SNP-set GWAS with sliding window by setting window.slide = 1. And you can also perform gene-set (or haplotype-block based) GWAS by assigning the following data set to gene.set argument. (You can check the example also by See(Rice_haplo_block) in R.)

ex.)

For example, when using the list of haplotype blocks estimated by PLINK,

### Perform haplotype-block based GWAS (by using hapltype blocks estimated by PLINK)
haplo_block.res <- RGWAS.multisnp(pheno = pheno.GWAS, geno = geno.GWAS, ZETA = ZETA, 
                              n.PC = 4, test.method = "LR", kernel.method = "linear", 
                              gene.set = Rice_haplo_block, skip.check = TRUE, 
                              test.effect = "additive")

See(haplo_block.res$D)  ### Column 4 contains -log10(p) values for markers

There is no significant block for this dataset because the number of markers and blocks is too small for this dataset. However, when whole-genome sequencing data is available, the impact of using SNP-set/gene-set/haplotype-block methods becomes larger and we strongly recommend you use these methods. Please see Hamazaki and Iwata (2020, PLOS Comp Biol) for more details of the features of these methods.

If you want some help before performing GWAS with RAINBOWR, please see the help for each function by ?function_name.

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