期刊
HUMAN HEREDITY
卷 53, 期 1, 页码 23-35出版社
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000048601
关键词
HLOD; locus heterogeneity; linkage analysis; ascertainment; parameter estimation
资金
- PHS HHS [K02 01432, R01 52841] Funding Source: Medline
Maximizing the homogeneity lod is known to be an appropriate procedure for estimating parameters of the trait model in an approximately 'ascertainment assumption free' (AAF) manner. We have investigated whether this same property also holds for the heterogeneity lod (HLOD). We show that, when the genetic models at linked and unlinked loci differ, HLODs are not AAF, and maximizing the HLOD yields parameter estimates that are for all practical purposes meaningless; indeed, the admixture parameter a does not even measure the proportion of linked families within the sample, as is commonly supposed. In spite of this, our results confirm a large body of evidence supporting the use of HLODs as robust tools for linkage detection, and suggest further that maximizing the HLOD over both a and parameters of the trait model can improve accuracy in estimation of the recombination fraction theta. These findings have important implications for the optimal handling of nuisance parameters in linkage analysis, particularly when evaluating the evidence for or against linkage based on multiple independent heterogeneous sets of data. Copyright (C) 2002 S. Karger AG, Basel.
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