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First, cohorts usually collect multiple phenotypes and complex diseases are usually measured by multiple correlated intermediate phenotypes. Second, jointly analyzing multiple phenotypes may increase statistical power for detecting genetic variants associated with complex diseases. Third, there is increasing evidence showing that pleiotropy is a widespread phenomenon in complex diseases. In this paper, we develop a clustering linear combination (CLC) method to jointly analyze multiple phenotypes for GWASs. In the CLC method, we first cluster individual statistics into positively correlated clusters and then, combine the individual statistics linearly within each cluster and combine the between-cluster terms in a quadratic form. CLC is not only robust to different signs of the means of individual statistics, but also reduce the degrees of freedom of the test statistic. We also theoretically prove that if we can cluster the individual statistics correctly, CLC is the most powerful test among all tests with certain quadratic forms. Our simulation results show that CLC is either the most powerful test or has similar power to the most powerful test among the tests we compared, and CLC is much more powerful than other tests when effect sizes align with inferred clusters. We also evaluate the performance of CLC through a real case study.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>R code for implementing our method is available at http:\/\/www.math.mtu.edu\/\u223cshuzhang\/software.html.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bty810","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,18]],"date-time":"2018-09-18T19:17:00Z","timestamp":1537298220000},"page":"1373-1379","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["A clustering linear combination approach to jointly analyze multiple phenotypes for GWAS"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"35","author":[{"given":"Qiuying","family":"Sha","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhenchuan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiao","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9478-1199","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuanglin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012808145354200_bty810-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"662","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ajhg.2014.03.016","article-title":"Maximizing the power of principal-component analysis of correlated phenotypes in genome-wide association studies","volume":"94","author":"Aschard","year":"2014","journal-title":"Am. 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