gwascat (version 2.4.2)

topTraits: operations on GWAS catalog

Description

operations on GWAS catalog

Usage

topTraits (gwwl, n=10, tag="DISEASE/TRAIT") 
locs4trait(gwwl, trait, tag="DISEASE/TRAIT") 
chklocs(chrtag="20", gwwl)

Arguments

gwwl

instance of gwaswloc

n

numeric, number of traits to report

tag

character, name of field to be used for trait enumeration

trait

character, trait to use for filtering

chrtag

character, chromosome identifier

Value

• topTraits returns a character vector of most frequently occurring traits in the database

  locs4trait returns a gwaswloc object with records defining associations to the specified trait

  chklocs returns a logical that is TRUE when the asserted locations of SNP in the GWAS catalog agree with the locations given in the dbSNP package SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh37

Examples

data(ebicat38)
topTraits(ebicat38)