From differential abundance to mtGWAS: accurate and scalable methodology for metabolomics data with non-ignorable missing observations and latent factors

05/24/2022
by   Shangshu Zhao, et al.
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Metabolomics is the high-throughput study of small molecule metabolites. Besides offering novel biological insights, these data contain unique statistical challenges, the most glaring of which is the many non-ignorable missing metabolite observations. To address this issue, nearly all analysis pipelines first impute missing observations, and subsequently perform analyses with methods designed for complete data. While clearly erroneous, these pipelines provide key practical advantages not present in existing statistically rigorous methods, including using both observed and missing data to increase power, fast computation to support phenome- and genome-wide analyses, and streamlined estimates for factor models. To bridge this gap between statistical fidelity and practical utility, we developed MS-NIMBLE, a statistically rigorous and powerful suite of methods that offers all the practical benefits of imputation pipelines to perform phenome-wide differential abundance analyses, metabolite genome-wide association studies (mtGWAS), and factor analysis with non-ignorable missing data. Critically, we tailor MS-NIMBLE to perform differential abundance and mtGWAS in the presence of latent factors, which reduces biases and improves power. In addition to proving its statistical and computational efficiency, we demonstrate its superior performance using three real metabolomic datasets.

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