Abstract：
:As millions of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been identified and high-throughput genotyping technologies have been rapidly developed, large-scale genomewide association studies are soon within reach. However, since a genomewide association study involves a large number of SNPs it is therefore nearly impossible to ensure a genomewide significance level of 0.05 using the available statistics, although the multiple-test problems can be alleviated, but not sufficiently, by the use of tagging SNPs. One strategy to circumvent the multiple-test problem associated with genome-wide association tests is to develop novel test statistics with high power. In this report, we introduce several nonlinear tests, which are based on nonlinear transformation of allele or haplotype frequencies. We investigate the power of the nonlinear test statistics and demonstrate that under certain conditions, some nonlinear test statistics have much higher power than the standard chi2-test statistic. Type I error rates of the nonlinear tests are validated using simulation studies. We also show that a class of similarity measure-based test statistics is based on the quadratic function of allele or haplotype frequencies, and thus they belong to nonlinear tests. To evaluate their performance, the nonlinear test statistics are also applied to three real data sets. Our study shows that nonlinear test statistics have great potential in association studies of complex diseases.
journal_name
Geneticsjournal_title
Geneticsauthors
Zhao J,Jin L,Xiong Mdoi
10.1534/genetics.106.060491subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-11-01 00:00:00pages
1529-38issue
3eissn
0016-6731issn
1943-2631pii
genetics.106.060491journal_volume
174pub_type
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