Use METAL to run a GWAS meta-analysis

This function is a wrapper for METAL, a tool for performing meta-analysis of GWAS summary statistics https://github.com/statgen/METAL. Details of the arguments to METAL are described in the METAL documentation: https://genome.sph.umich.edu/wiki/METAL_Documentation.

Usage

metal_run(config_file, metal_path)

Arguments

config_file

(path) Path to a METAL configuration file (this can be generated using metal_config())

metal_path

(path) Path to the METAL binary

Value

Path to gzip-formatted text file containing meta-analysis summary statistics

See also

Create a METAL configuration file: metal_config()

Other GWAS meta-analysis: metal_config(), mr_mega()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
metal_run(config_file = "config.txt", metal_path = "/path/to/metal_binary")
}