RAS - Regional Association Score for Genome-Wide Association Studies

Implements the Regional Association Score (RAS) method for genome-wide association studies (GWAS). For each single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), RAS quantifies the strength of association within its surrounding genomic region, arranges these regional scores along the chromosome into a signal profile, and applies changepoint detection to locate association regions, improving statistical power while controlling the false positive rate. The method is described in Jiang and Zhang (2025) <doi:10.1073/pnas.2419721122>.