gwaslab 4.1.9

Python toolkit for handling GWAS summary statistics

GWASLab

• A handy Python-based toolkit for handling GWAS summary statistics (sumstats).
• Each process is modularized and can be customized to your needs.
• Sumstats-specific manipulations are designed as methods of a Python object, gwaslab.Sumstats.

Installation

install via pip

The latest version of GWASLab now supports Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12.

pip install gwaslab

install in conda environment

Create a Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 or 3.12 environment and install gwaslab using pip:

conda env create -n gwaslab -c conda-forge python=3.12

conda activate gwaslab

pip install gwaslab

or create a new environment using yml file environment.yml

conda env create -n gwaslab -f environment.yml

install using docker (deprecated)

A docker file is available here for building local images.

Quick start

import gwaslab as gl

# load plink2 output
mysumstats = gl.Sumstats("sumstats.txt.gz", fmt="plink2")

# or load sumstats with auto mode (auto-detecting commonly used headers) 
# assuming ALT/A1 is EA, and frq is EAF
mysumstats = gl.Sumstats("sumstats.txt.gz", fmt="auto")

# or you can specify the columns:
mysumstats = gl.Sumstats("sumstats.txt.gz",
             snpid="SNP",
             chrom="CHR",
             pos="POS",
             ea="ALT",
             nea="REF",
             eaf="Frq",
             beta="BETA",
             se="SE",
             p="P",
             direction="Dir",
             n="N",
             build="19")

# manhattan and qq plot
mysumstats.plot_mqq()
...

Documentation and tutorials

Documentation and tutorials for GWASLab are avaiable at here.

AI agent skills

gwaslab-skills is an agent-agnostic skill library (domains, atomic skills, workflows, thin adapters) for Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Aider, and other agents. Start from MANIFEST.yaml and ROUTER.md; see adapters/ per platform.

git clone https://github.com/Cloufield/gwaslab-skills.git
cd gwaslab-skills
./scripts/install-cursor.sh    # optional: Cursor rule
cp adapters/generic/AGENTS.md /path/to/your/project/AGENTS.md

GWAS atomic skills cover single-cohort load/QC/harmonize/plot/export (gwas.lead_extraction, gwas.format_export, gwas.ldsc, etc.)—full index in the repo MANIFEST.yaml (v1.2.0; no pair/multi-object skills yet).

Functions

Loading and Formatting

• Loading sumstats by simply specifying the software name or format name, or specifying each column name.
• Converting GWAS sumstats to specific formats:
  • LDSC / MAGMA / METAL / PLINK / SAIGE / REGENIE / MR-MEGA / GWAS-SSF / FUMA / GWAS-VCF / BED...
  • check available formats
• Optional filtering of variants in commonly used genomic regions: Hapmap3 SNPs / High-LD regions / MHC region

Standardization & Normalization

• Variant ID standardization
• CHR and POS notation standardization
• Variant POS and allele normalization
• Genome build : Inference and Liftover

Quality control, Value conversion & Filtering

• Statistics sanity check
• Extreme value removal
• Equivalent statistics conversion
  • BETA/SE , OR/OR_95L/OR_95U
  • P, Z, CHISQ, MLOG10P
• Customizable value filtering

Harmonization

• rsID assignment based on CHR, POS, and REF/ALT
• CHR POS assignment based on rsID using a reference text file
• Palindromic SNPs and indels strand inference using a reference VCF
• Check allele frequency discrepancy using a reference VCF
• Reference allele alignment using a reference genome sequence FASTA file

Visualization

• Mqq plot: Manhattan plot, QQ plot or MQQ plot (with a bunch of customizable features including auto-annotate nearest gene names)
• Miami plot: mirrored Manhattan plot
• Brisbane plot: GWAS hits density plot
• Regional plot: GWAS regional plot
• Genetic correlation heatmap: ldsc-rg genetic correlation matrix
• Scatter plot: variant effect size comparison
• Scatter plot: allele frequency comparison
• Scatter plot: trumpet plot (plot of MAF and effect size with power lines)

Visualization Examples

Other Utilities

• Read ldsc h2 or rg outputs directly as DataFrames (auto-parsing).
• Extract lead variants given a sliding window size.
• Extract novel loci given a list of known lead variants / or known loci obtained from GWAS Catalog.
• Logging: keep a complete record of manipulations applied to the sumstats.
• Sumstats summary: give you a quick overview of the sumstats.
• ...

Issues

• GWASLab is currently under active development, with frequent updates.
• Note: Known issues are documented at https://cloufield.github.io/gwaslab/KnownIssues/.

How to cite

• GWASLab preprint: He, Y., Koido, M., Shimmori, Y., Kamatani, Y. (2023). GWASLab: a Python package for processing and visualizing GWAS summary statistics. Preprint at Jxiv, 2023-5. https://doi.org/10.51094/jxiv.370

Sample data used for tutorial

• Sample GWAS data used in GWASLab is obtained from: http://jenger.riken.jp/ (Suzuki, Ken, et al. "Identification of 28 new susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes in the Japanese population." Nature genetics 51.3 (2019): 379-386.).

Acknowledgement

Thanks to @sup3rgiu, @soumickmj and @gmauro for their contributions to the source codes.

Contacts

• Github: https://github.com/Cloufield/gwaslab
• Blog (in Chinese): https://gwaslab.com/
• Email: [e-mail]
• Stats: https://pypistats.org/packages/gwaslab