GWASapi - R package to connect to the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog of Summary Statistics

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See the API documentation as well as Pjotr Prins's documentation at github.

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Installation

You can install GWASapi from GitHub.

You first need to install the devtools.

install.packages("devtools")

Then use devtools::install_github() to install GWASapi.

library(devtools)
install_github("rqtl/GWASapi")

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Usage

For an understanding of the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog of Summary Statistics API, see its documentation, as well as Pjotr Prins's documentation at github

The GWASapi package has a set of functions for connecting to the GWAS Catalog:

• check_gwasapi() - Check connection.
• list_chr() - List chromosomes
• list_studies() - List of studies
• list_traits() - List of traits
• info_study() - Metadata about a particular study
• get_variant() - Get data frame of associations for a particular variant
• get_asso() - Get associations for a particular chromosome region
• get_trait_asso() - Get associations for a particular trait

For examples, see the online vignette, which is also available from within R:

vignette("GWASapi")

Note that we enforce a delay between calls to the API, to slow repeated calls within a loop. The default is 1 sec; it can be controlled with the option GWASapi_delay. For example, to make the delay 0.5 seconds, use:

options(GWASapi_delay=0.5)

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License

GWASapi is released under the MIT license.