Open ZhiyiZhu0226 opened 1 year ago
Dear Zhiyi—more context please. But I think the answer is yes. If sample size permits a more complex model with interaction terms and high order covariates, they can sometimes be useful.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 2:02 PM Zhiyi Zhu @.***> wrote:
Hi, I was wondering why is agesex, agesex^2 included as covariates. Is age and sex not enough to account as the covariates?
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Hi, thanks for responding! For the UKBB GWAS, imputed-v3 Association model (https://github.com/Nealelab/UK_Biobank_GWAS), it was stated that the following are included as covariates: 1st 20 PCs + sex + age + age^2 + sex age + sex age^2. My question is why are the last two terms, sex age and sex age^2, are included as covariates. I have rarely seen other studies that include combinations of age and sex as covariates (I have seen one that uses age-by-sex as one of their covariates: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04103-z), and I'm curious about the motivation behind using those two covariates. What variance are those covariates trying to account for?
Ah, not my work but sex age is a useful interaction term, sex age^2 will model steeper age related sex interaction effects that become much more important from 40 years up.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 15:55 Zhiyi Zhu @.***> wrote:
Hi, thanks for responding! For the UKBB GWAS, imputed-v3 Association model (https://github.com/Nealelab/UK_Biobank_GWAS), it was stated that the following are included as covariates: 1st 20 PCs + sex + age + age^2 + sex
- age + sex age^2. My question is why are the last two terms, sex age and sex * age^2, are included as covariates. I have rarely seen other studies that include combinations of age and sex as covariates (I have seen one that uses age-by-sex as one of their covariates: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04103-z), and I'm curious about the motivation behind using those two covariates. What variance are those covariates trying to account for?
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Thanks for the answer! I have a follow up question: how is the age sex interaction calculated? Currently I'm encoding females as 0 and males as 1. So is the age sex interaction for a 56 year old female 0 (or for a 47 year old male, 47), or is the interaction calculated in some more complicated way? It doesn't make much sense to me to multiple a categorical variable (sex) and a quantitative variable (age)
Dear Zhihui: Should be pretty standard LMM. This is one reason fir the word “mixed” in LMM.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 16:49 Zhiyi Zhu @.***> wrote:
Thanks for the answer! I have a follow up question: how is the age sex interaction calculated? Currently I'm encoding females as 0 and males as 1. So is the age sex interaction for a 56 year old female 0 (or for a 47 year old male, 47), or is the interaction calculated in some more complicated way? It doesn't make much sense to me to multiple a categorical variable (sex) and a quantitative variable (age)
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Hi, I was wondering why is agesex, agesex^2 included as covariates. Is age and sex not enough to account as the covariates?