Manhattan Plots Recitation

Week 11

Author

Jessica Cooperstone

Introduction

We are going to practice making Manhattan plots today.

library(tidyverse) # for everything
library(ggrepel) # for repelling labels
library(qqman) # for gwas data

gwasResults <- qqman::gwasResults

Investigate your data.

What are your columns?

How many markers are there?

How are the markers distributed across the chromosomes?

Make a Manhattan plot.

Color by chromosome, make sure the x-axis breaks are appropriate, be sure your y-axis is -log10 pvalue. Label the top 3 most significant points with their SNP number.

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