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Table 6 Summary of microbial GWAS. Microbial GWAS developed until now are listed comparing their workflows, mutations of interest, studied phenotypes and genome dataset

From: Genetic and metabolic signatures of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica associated with animal sources at the pangenomic scale

Workflow

Explicative mutations

Population structure correction

Trait

Species

Sample

Reference a

bespoke

Phenotype + kmer

YES

Preferential host

Campylobacter jejuni

192

[30]

PhyC

Phenotype + SNP

YES

Antibiotic resistance

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

123

[33]

N/A

Phenotype + SNP

NO

Virulence

Staphylococcus aureus

90

[32]

Scoary

Gene

YES

Antibiotic resistance

Streptococcus pneumoniae

3085

[38]

Gemma

SNP

YES

Antimicrobial resistance

M. tuberculosis, S. aureus, E coli, K. pneumoniae

3144

[40]

Treewas

SNP + Gene + kmer

YES

Antimicrobial resistance

Neisseria meningitidis

ND

[41]

PLINK

SNP

NO

Drug resistance

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

123

[36]

PhyC

SNP

ND

Drug resistance

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

498

[39]

RoadTrips

SNP

NO

Drug Resistance

Staphylococcus aureus

75

[34]

PLINK

SNP

NO

Drug resistance

Streptococcus pneumoniae

3701

[35]

Scoary

Gene

YES

Geographical origin

Salmonella enterica

1327

[28]

DBGWAS

kmer

YES

Antibiotic resistance

M. tuberculosis, S. aureus, P. aeruginosa

1302, 992, 282

[42]

Scoary + GEMMA

Gene + SNPs

YES

Cold persistence

Listeria monocytogenes

51

[29]

PLINK

SNP

NO

Drug resistance

HIV

343

[140]

PLINK

SNP

NO

Viral load

HIV

1071

[31]

FaST-LMM

SNP

YES

Drug resistance

Plasmodium falciparum

1063

[37]

  1. a references completed from Power et al. [43]. ND stands for not determined