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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 82, Issue 2, Pages 444-452Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2007.11.004
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- NCI NIH HHS [T32 CA106209] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAMS NIH HHS [R01 AR044422, N01AR82232, R01AR44422] Funding Source: Medline
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Missing genotype data arise in association studies when the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on the genotying platform are not assayed successfully, when the SNPs of interest are not on the platform, or when total sequence variation is determined only on a small fraction of individuals. We present a simple and flexible likelihood framework to study SNP-disease associations with such missing genotype data. Our likelihood makes full use of all available data in case-control studies and reference panels (e.g., the HapMap), and it properly accounts for the biased nature of the case-control sampling as well as the uncertainty in inferring unknown variants. The corresponding maximum-likelihood estimators for genetic effects and gene-environment interactions are unbiased and statistically efficient. We developed fast and stable numerical algorithms to calculate the maximum-likelihood estimators and their variances, and we implemented these algorithms in a freely available computer program. Simulation studies demonstrated that the new approach is more powerful than existing methods while providing accurate control of the type I error. An application to a case-control study on rheumatoid arthritis revealed several loci that deserve further investigations.
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