Meta-analysis of the most common GWAS Summary Statistic file formats

SumstatsFormats builds upon the work of the gwas-download repository which created a script to download publicly available GWAS summary statistics from over 200 different publications.

Click here to view the meta-analysis of GWAS Summary Statistic file formats.

SumstatFormats goal is to give insight into the most frequent format of summary statistic files from GWAS. If you want to run the code yourself please first run the download script from gwas-download and set your working directory to this repository's folder.

SumstatFormats highlights the disparity across summary statistic files, creating a barrier major to automated meta-analysis studies. To address this issue, the bioconductor R package MungeSumstats was created to standardise the file format of summary statistic files, including VCF files. See the MungeSumstats github page for more details.