GBLUP example in R

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Shirin Amiri was asking about GBLUP (genomic BLUP) and based on her example I set up the following R script to show how GBLUP works. Note that this is the so called marker model, where we estimate allele substitution effects of the markers and not individual based model, where genomic breeding values are inferred directly. The code:

library(package="MatrixModels")
 
dat <- data.frame( y=c(1.5, 2.35, 3.4, 2.31, 1.53),
                  s1=c("AA", "Aa", "Aa", "AA", "aa"),
                  s2=c("Bb", "BB", "bb", "BB", "bb"),
                  s3=c("cc", "Cc", "Cc", "cc", "CC"),
                  s4=c("Dd", "Dd", "DD", "dd", "Dd"))
 
cols <- paste("s", 1:4, sep="")
dat[, cols] <- lapply(dat[, cols], function(z) as.integer(z) - 1)
 
lambda <- 1
 
(y <- dat$y)
(X <- model.Matrix(y ~  1,                     data=dat, sparse=TRUE))
(Z <- model.Matrix(y ~ -1 + s1 + s2 + s3 + s4, data=dat, sparse=TRUE))
 
XX <- crossprod(X)
XZ <- crossprod(X, Z)
ZZ <- crossprod(Z)
 
Xy <- crossprod(X, y)
Zy <- crossprod(Z, y)
 
(LHS <- rBind(cBind(XX,    XZ),
              cBind(t(XZ), ZZ + Diagonal(n=dim(ZZ)[1]) * lambda)))
 
(RHS <- rBind(Xy,
              Zy))
 
(sol <- solve(LHS, RHS))
 
(GEBV <- Z %*% sol[-1])

And the transcript:

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> 
> library(package="MatrixModels")
Loading required package: Matrix
Loading required package: lattice
 
Attaching package: ‘Matrix’
 
The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:base’:
 
    det
 
 
Attaching package: ‘MatrixModels’
 
The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:stats’:
 
    getCall
 
> 
> dat <- data.frame( y=c(1.5, 2.35, 3.4, 2.31, 1.53),
+                   s1=c("AA", "Aa", "Aa", "AA", "aa"),
+                   s2=c("Bb", "BB", "bb", "BB", "bb"),
+                   s3=c("cc", "Cc", "Cc", "cc", "CC"),
+                   s4=c("Dd", "Dd", "DD", "dd", "Dd"))
> 
> cols <- paste("s", 1:4, sep="")
> dat[, cols] <- lapply(dat[, cols], function(z) as.integer(z) - 1)
> 
> lambda <- 1
> 
> (y <- dat$y)
[1] 1.50 2.35 3.40 2.31 1.53
> (X <- model.Matrix(y ~  1,                     data=dat, sparse=TRUE))
"dsparseModelMatrix": 5 x 1 sparse Matrix of class "dgCMatrix"
  (Intercept)
1           1
2           1
3           1
4           1
5           1
@ assign:  0 
@ contrasts:
named list()
> (Z <- model.Matrix(y ~ -1 + s1 + s2 + s3 + s4, data=dat, sparse=TRUE))
"dsparseModelMatrix": 5 x 4 sparse Matrix of class "dgCMatrix"
  s1 s2 s3 s4
1  2  1  .  1
2  1  2  1  1
3  1  .  1  2
4  2  2  .  .
5  .  .  2  1
@ assign:  1 2 3 4 
@ contrasts:
named list()
> 
> XX <- crossprod(X)
> XZ <- crossprod(X, Z)
> ZZ <- crossprod(Z)
> 
> Xy <- crossprod(X, y)
> Zy <- crossprod(Z, y)
> 
> (LHS <- rBind(cBind(XX,    XZ),
+               cBind(t(XZ), ZZ + Diagonal(n=dim(ZZ)[1]) * lambda)))
5 x 5 sparse Matrix of class "dgCMatrix"
            (Intercept) s1 s2 s3 s4
(Intercept)           5  6  5  4  5
s1                    6 11  8  2  5
s2                    5  8 10  2  3
s3                    4  2  2  7  5
s4                    5  5  3  5  8
> 
> (RHS <- rBind(Xy,
+               Zy))
5 x 1 Matrix of class "dgeMatrix"
             [,1]
(Intercept) 11.09
s1          13.37
s2          10.82
s3           8.81
s4          12.18
> 
> (sol <- solve(LHS, RHS))
5 x 1 Matrix of class "dgeMatrix"
                   [,1]
(Intercept)  1.65468864
s1           0.05223443
s2           0.08655678
s3          -0.05223443
s4           0.45586081
> 
> (GEBV <- Z %*% sol[-1])
5 x 1 Matrix of class "dgeMatrix"
       [,1]
1 0.6468864
2 0.6289744
3 0.9117216
4 0.2775824
5 0.3513919
> 
> proc.time()
   user  system elapsed 
  2.330   0.070   2.412 

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