Testing association with interactions by partitioning chi-squares.

abstract：:The joint analysis of multiple traits has recently become popular since it can increase statistical power to detect genetic variants and there is increasing evidence showing that pleiotropy is a widespread phenomenon in complex diseases. Currently, the majority of existing methods for the joint analysis of multiple tr...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wang Z,Wang X,Sha Q,Zhang S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyslexia is a complex gene-environment disorder with poorly understood etiology that affects about 5% of school-age children. Dyslexia occurs in all languages and is associated with a high level of social and psychological morbidity for the individual and their family; approximately 40-50% have persistent disability i...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Schulte-Körne G,Ziegler A,Deimel W,Schumacher J,Plume E,Bachmann C,Kleensang A,Propping P,Nöthen MM,Warnke A,Remschmidt H,König IR

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous functional studies have implicated PARL in relation to type 2 diabetes (T2D). We hypothesised that conflicting human association studies may be due to neighbouring causal variants being in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with PARL. We conducted a comprehensive candidate gene study of the extended LD genomic regio...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Direk K,Lau W,Small KS,Maniatis N,Andrew T

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-random inheritance of the two parental haplotypes among siblings affected by certain diseases has long been used to provide evidence of the presence of disease susceptibility genes. The distribution of a powerful test, called Q, based on haplotype concordance and discordance, is derived under the null hypothesis o...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Shah S,Green JR

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testing multiple markers simultaneously not only can capture the linkage disequilibrium patterns but also can decrease the number of tests and thus alleviate the multiple-testing penalty. If a gene is associated with a phenotype, subjects with similar genotypes in this gene should also have similar phenotypes. Based o...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lin WY,Tiwari HK,Gao G,Zhang K,Arcaroli JJ,Abraham E,Liu N

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allelic transmission rates from parents to cases are frequently stratified by an environmental risk factor E and compared, with heterogeneity interpreted as gene-environment interaction or GxE. Though generally invalid, such analyses continue to appear. We revisit why heterogeneity is not equivalent to GxE in a range ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Shin JH,McNeney B,Graham J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recursively computed descent probabilities provide an effective way to evaluate possible ancestries of rare alleles segregating in large and complex genealogies, but they ignore information other than the descent to a small set of current gene copies. We show how descent probability computations can be modified to inc...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Thompson EA,Morgan K

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid clones (MOGs) were made between the mouse line RAG and a primary fibroblast line from an individual of the rare alphaGLU 2 phenotype. Fifteen independent primary clones and 32 subclones were tested for the presence of human alphaGLU after separation of the human and rodent enzymes by starch gel electrophoresis....

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Solomon E,Swallow D,Burgess S,Evans L

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information on family history and age of onset of breast cancer is examined in an attempt to distinguish between postulated early and late onset forms of breast cancer and to estimate the familial correlation between any subforms that may exist. Data are taken from the Cancer and Steroid Hormone Study, a multicentre, ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Claus EB,Risch NJ,Thompson WD

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chromosomal locus for late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD) has previously been mapped to 9p21.3. The most significant results were reported in a sample of autopsy-confirmed families. Linkage to this locus has been independently confirmed in AD families from a consanguineous Israeli-Arab community. In the present stud...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Züchner S,Gilbert JR,Martin ER,Leon-Guerrero CR,Xu PT,Browning C,Bronson PG,Whitehead P,Schmechel DE,Haines JL,Pericak-Vance MA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marriages contracted between 1600 and 1850 in the parishes Vang and Slidre in the mountain valley of Valdres in Norway were investigated, using the information in the genealogical and local history of the parishes and in various public archives. The parishes functioned as a marriage isolate, in spite of regular co...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Saugstad LF,Odegård O

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial DNA variation of 295 Berber-speakers from Morocco (Asni, Bouhria and Figuig) and the Egyptian oasis of Siwa was evaluated by sequencing a portion of the control region (including HVS-I and part of HVS-II) and surveying haplogroup-specific coding region markers. Our findings show that the Berber mitoc...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Coudray C,Olivieri A,Achilli A,Pala M,Melhaoui M,Cherkaoui M,El-Chennawi F,Kossmann M,Torroni A,Dugoujon JM

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theory is given for complex phenotypes represented by an ordered polychotomy separately for affected (as severity) and for normals (as diathesis), with consideration of history, ascertainment, sampling frames, and phenotype systems. Nonrandom selection of probands by severity is permitted. Both probit and logistic m...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Morton NE,Shields DC,Collins A

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder with a cumulative prevalence of greater than one per thousand. To date three independent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have investigated the genetic susceptibility to PD. These studies implicated several genes as PD risk loci with strong, but not ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Edwards TL,Scott WK,Almonte C,Burt A,Powell EH,Beecham GW,Wang L,Züchner S,Konidari I,Wang G,Singer C,Nahab F,Scott B,Stajich JM,Pericak-Vance M,Haines J,Vance JM,Martin ER

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typically genetic studies of continuous traits such as cholesterol levels or blood pressure assume that interindividual variability follows a normal distribution. Here we develop methods to analyze positively skewed data by assuming a lognormal distribution. We develop a variance components approach for identifying su...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wan Y,De Andrade M,Yu L,Cohen J,Amos CI

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polygenic threshold model assumes that the distribution of the underlying liability is approximately normal. This paper examines the impact of deviations from normality in the underlying liability distribution when the number of loci affecting liability is finite, but large (e.g. 5-10). Skewness and kurtosis of th...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Kendler KS,Kidd KK

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently statements have been made about a special 'genetic homogeneity' of the Icelanders that are at variance with earlier work on blood groups and allozymes. To validate these claims an extensive reanalysis was undertaken of mtDNA variation by examining primary data from original sources on 26 European populations....

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Arnason E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although autism is one of the most heritable neuropsychiatric disorders, its underlying genetic architecture has largely eluded description. To comprehensively examine the hypothesis that common variation is important in autism, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using a discovery dataset of 438 autis...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Ma D,Salyakina D,Jaworski JM,Konidari I,Whitehead PL,Andersen AN,Hoffman JD,Slifer SH,Hedges DJ,Cukier HN,Griswold AJ,McCauley JL,Beecham GW,Wright HH,Abramson RK,Martin ER,Hussman JP,Gilbert JR,Cuccaro ML,Haines JL

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical methods are developed for tracing quantitative measurements on human chromosomes from parents to offspring. Tests for transmission are briefly considered. ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lauder IJ

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophoretic analysis of the Ps protein demonstrated the existence of phenotypes additional to those described by Azen & Denniston (1980). A hypothesis that the polymorphism of the Ps protein is determined by five expressed and one unexpressed alleles was supported by family studies. The gene frequencies in a Japan...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Minaguchi K,Shirotani T,Suzuki K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for interdisciplinary assessments and interpretations of -omics underpinnings of human complex diseases. However, often investigators from different, yet overlapping, disciplines experience difficulties in understanding the other discipline's language and there is a clear need for establishing a platfo...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Van Steen K,Sleegers K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human dopamine transporter (hDAT) participates in dopamine homeostasis by clearing dopamine from the extracellular space using secondary active transport. Dysregulation of hDAT has been reported to be associated with different neuropsychiatric disorders. Dopamine transporter deficiency syndrome (DTDS) is a complex...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Heidari E,Razmara E,Hosseinpour S,Tavasoli AR,Garshasbi M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lysosomal storage disorder glycogenosis type II, caused by a deficiency of lysosomal alpha-glucosidase, is very heterogeneous in its clinical presentation. It has been suggested that this heterogeneity may be due to differential expression of neutral alpha-glucosidases. We have therefore analysed the activity of t...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Van der Ploeg AT,Kroos MA,Swallow DM,Reuser AJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunological method for the detection of two thyroxine-binding plasma proteins, thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) and thyroxine-binding prealbumin (TBPA), following polyacrylamide gel isoelectric focusing is described. Both proteins show complex electrophoretic patterns, attributable to post-translational glycosyla...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Whitehouse DB,Hopkinson DA,Hill AV,Bowden DK

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The original transmission disequilibrium test (TDT), was introduced to test for linkage between a marker and a disease-susceptibility locus (Spielman et al. 1993). Allison (1997) extended the TDT procedure to quantitative traits. Allison's test, however, is restrictive in that it requires family trios consisting of on...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Xiong MM,Krushkal J,Boerwinkle E

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uterine fibroids (UFs) are the most common benign neoplasms, but their pathogenesis is not completely understood. Thus far, alterations in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) content and the mtDNA 4977-bp deletion level in UFs, as well as the corresponding nontumorous tissue, have remained elusive. To test whether large mtD...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Luo Y,Zou Y,Wu J,Zhang ZY,Liu FY,Li LP,Huang OP

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In case-control studies of complex disease genes, allele frequencies or allele positivities at candidate loci or markers are compared between cases and controls. Although 2 x 2 contingency tables based on allele frequency and allele positivity are generally used to perform simple statistical tests (e.g. a comparison o...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Ohashi J,Yamamoto S,Tsuchiya N,Hatta Y,Komata T,Matsushita M,Tokunaga K

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This palaeogenetic study focused on the analysis of a late prehispanic Argentinean group from the Humahuaca valley, with the main aim of reconstructing its (micro)evolutionary history. The Humahuaca valley, a natural passageway from the eastern plains to the highlands, was the living environment of Andean societies wh...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Mendisco F,Keyser C,Seldes V,Rivolta C,Mercolli P,Cruz P,Nielsen AE,Crubezy E,Ludes B

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male and female sibs born to third-cousin parents presented with mental retardation, microcephaly, short stature, juvenile onset limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and multiple chromosome mosaicism in lymphocytes and fibroblasts. Different aneuploidies (mostly trisomies) were found in 15-20% of the cells and trisomies for...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Papi L,Montali E,Marconi G,Guazzelli R,Bigozzi U,Maraschio P,Zuffardi O

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-segregation studies based on a selection of intragenic restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene have been used extensively both for research and diagnostic studies of familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) families, because direct mutation screening remains complex....

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Haddad L,Day LB,Attwood J,Povey S,Humphries SE,Day IN

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00