期刊
HUMAN HEREDITY
卷 71, 期 1, 页码 67-82出版社
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000324839
关键词
Family data; Population-based association analysis; Genome-wide scan; Generalized least squares
资金
- NIH [U01 DA024417]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM [R37AA009367, R01AA009367] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE [U01DA024417] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) using family data involve association analyses between hundreds of thousands of markers and a trait for a large number of related individuals. The correlations among relatives bring statistical and computational challenges when performing these large-scale association analyses. Recently, several rapid methods accounting for both within-and between-family variation have been proposed. However, these techniques mostly model the phenotypic similarities in terms of genetic relatedness. The familial resemblances in many family-based studies such as twin studies are not only due to the genetic relatedness, but also derive from shared environmental effects and assortative mating. In this paper, we propose 2 generalized least squares (GLS) models for rapid association analysis of family-based GWAS, which accommodate both genetic and environmental contributions to familial resemblance. In our first model, we estimated the joint genetic and environmental variations. In our second model, we estimated the genetic and environmental components separately. Through simulation studies, we demonstrated that our proposed approaches are more powerful and computationally efficient than a number of existing methods are. We show that estimating the residual variance-covariance matrix in the GLS models without SNP effects does not lead to an appreciable bias in the p values as long as the SNP effect is small (i.e. accounting for no more than 1% of trait variance). Copyright (C) 2011 S. Karger AG, Basel
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