Prediction of treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis patients using genome-wide SNP data

Svetlana Cherlin, Darren Plant, John C Taylor, Marco Colombo, Athina Spiliopoulou, Evan Tzanis, Ann W Morgan, Michael R Barnes, Paul McKeigue, Jennifer H Barrett, Costantino Pitzalis, Anne Barton, Matura Consortium, Heather J Cordell

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Although a number of treatments are available for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), each of them shows a significant nonresponse rate in patients. Therefore, predicting a priori the likelihood of treatment response would be of great patient benefit. Here, we conducted a comparison of a variety of statistical methods for predicting three measures of treatment response, between baseline and 3 or 6 months, using genome-wide SNP data from RA patients available from the MAximising Therapeutic Utility in Rheumatoid Arthritis (MATURA) consortium. Two different treatments and 11 different statistical methods were evaluated. We used 10-fold cross validation to assess predictive performance, with nested 10-fold cross validation used to tune the model hyperparameters when required. Overall, we found that SNPs added very little prediction information to that obtained using clinical characteristics only, such as baseline trait value. This observation can be explained by the lack of strong genetic effects and the relatively small sample sizes available; in analysis of simulated and real data, with larger effects and/or larger sample sizes, prediction performance was much improved. Overall, methods that were consistent with the genetic architecture of the trait were able to achieve better predictive ability than methods that were not. For treatment response in RA, methods that assumed a complex underlying genetic architecture achieved slightly better prediction performance than methods that assumed a simplified genetic architecture.

Original languageEnglish
JournalGenetic Epidemiology
Early online date12 Oct 2018
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Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 12 Oct 2018

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