Evaluation of genetic and environmental effects using GEE and APM methods.

abstract：:The following Gm and Km immunoglobulin allotypes were determined on the Genetic Analysis Workshop 5 insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (GAW5 IDDM) families: G1m (1,2,3,17), G2m (23), G3m (5,10,11,13,14,21,28) and Km (1,3). Since the allotype G2m (23) has been rarely studied, due to paucity of typing reagents, it was ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Field LL,Dugoujon JM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing studies using whole-genome or exome scans are still more expensive than genome-wide association studies on a per-subject basis. As a result, only a subset of subjects from a larger study will be selected for sequencing. To perform an agnostic investigation of the entire genome, subjects may be selected that...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Edwards TL,Li C

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Framingham Heart Study data, as well as a related simulated data set, were generously provided to the participants of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 13 in order that newly developed and emerging statistical methodologies could be tested on that well-characterized data set. The impetus driving the development of nov...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Costello TJ,Falk CT,Ye KQ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have identified breast cancer risk genes by integrating data from expression quantitative loci and genome-wide association studies (GWAS), but analyses of breast cancer subtype-specific associations have been limited. In this study, we conducted a TWAS using gene ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Feng H,Gusev A,Pasaniuc B,Wu L,Long J,Abu-Full Z,Aittomäki K,Andrulis IL,Anton-Culver H,Antoniou AC,Arason A,Arndt V,Aronson KJ,Arun BK,Asseryanis E,Auer PL,Azzollini J,Balmaña J,Barkardottir RB,Barnes DR,Barrowda

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the current study was to utilize the Genetic Analysis Workshop 12 simulated data to evaluate fine-mapping strategies for quantitative traits. We approached the analysis as if it was a follow-up to a genome scan that had identified two regions of interest and used the provided 1-cM density microsatellite...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Heard-Costa NL,Demissie S,DeStefano AL,Knowlton BA,Maher NE,Myers RH,Volcjak JS,Wilk JB,Cupples LA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in Gerona, Spain, is high for the low myocardial infarction incidence and mortality rates in the province. Physical activity is a protective factor against coronary heart disease. We investigated whether the genetic variants Q and R of the paraoxonase Gln-Arg 192 polymorph...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Sentí M,Aubó C,Elosua R,Sala J,Tomás M,Marrugat J

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncoding DNA contains gene regulatory elements that alter gene expression, and the function of these elements can be modified by genetic variation. Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRA) enable high-throughput identification and characterization of functional genetic variants, but the statistical methods to identi...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Qiao D,Zigler CM,Cho MH,Silverman EK,Zhou X,Castaldi PJ,Laird NH

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our group studied the effects of genotyping errors, pedigree errors, and missing data on a wide range of techniques, with a focus on the role of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Half of our group used simulated data, and half of our group used data from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COG...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Hinrichs AL,Suarez BK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol dependence often is a familial disorder and has a genetic component. Research in causative factors of alcoholism is coordinated by a multi-center program, COGA [The Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism, Begleiter et al., 1995]. We analyzed a subset of the COGA family sample, 84 pedigrees of Caucas...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Windemuth C,Hahn A,Strauch K,Baur MP,Wienker TF

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of the success of genome-wide association studies in finding many common variants associated with disease, these variants seem to explain only a small proportion of the estimated heritability. Data collection has turned toward exome and whole genome sequencing, but it is well known that single marker methods ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Ayers KL,Cordell HJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heritability of most complex traits is driven by variants throughout the genome. Consequently, polygenic risk scores, which combine information on multiple variants genome-wide, have demonstrated improved accuracy in genetic risk prediction. We present a new two-step approach to constructing genome-wide polygenic ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Newcombe PJ,Nelson CP,Samani NJ,Dudbridge F

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is an investigation of the relationship between apolipoprotein E (apoE) phenotype, arterial disease, and mortality in a group of women (n = 1,751) aged 65 years and older enrolled in the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures. Crude mortality rates were highest among women with the 4-3 and 4-4 phenotypes but age-a...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Vogt MT,Cauley JA,Kuller LH

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In case-control genetic association studies, the robust procedure, Pearson's Chi-square test, is commonly used for testing association between disease status and genetic markers. However, this test does not take the possible trend of relative risks, which are due to genotype, into account. On the contrary, although Co...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Chen Z

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The asymptotic distribution of [MOD] scores under the null hypothesis of no linkage is only known for affected sib pairs and other types of affected relative pairs. We have extended the GENEHUNTER-MODSCORE program to allow for simulations under the null hypothesis of no linkage to determine the empirical significance ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Mattheisen M,Dietter J,Knapp M,Baur MP,Strauch K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few years at least 13 transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT)-based tests have been developed for quantitative (Q) traits for the assessment of association or linkage in the presence of the other. A total of six of these QTDT methods were used to analyze log10IgE in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Page GP,Wilcox MA,Occhiuto J,Adak S,Neuberg D,Bajorunaite R,George V

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compare four strategies for finding the settings of genetic parameters that maximize the lod scores reported in GENEHUNTER 1.2. The four strategies are iterated complete factorial designs, iterated orthogonal Latin hypercubes, evolutionary operation, and numerical optimization. The genetic parameters that are set a...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Chen CH,Finch SJ,Mendell NR,Gordon D

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large number of tests performed in analyzing data from genome-wide association studies has a large impact on the power of detecting risk variants, and analytic strategies specifying the optimal set of hypotheses to be tested are necessary. We propose a genome-wide strategy that is based on one degree of freedom te...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Nicolae DL

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report investigates the power issue in applying the non-parametric linkage analysis of affected sib-pairs (ASP) [Kruglyak and Lander, 1995: Am J Hum Genet 57:439-454] to localize genes that contribute to human longevity using long-lived sib-pairs. Data were simulated by introducing a recently developed statistica...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Tan Q,Zhao JH,Iachine I,Hjelmborg J,Vach W,Vaupel JW,Christensen K,Kruse TA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic epidemiology is a relatively new discipline that seeks to unravel the role of genetic factors and their interactions with environmental factors in the etiology of diseases, using population and family study approaches. To characterize the overall direction and emphasis of research strategies used in this field...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Khoury MJ,Beaty TH,Cohen BH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of a gene in a disease may be hidden by the presence of another risk factor such as an environmental factor. In that case, stratifying the data according to this factor strengthens power to detect linkage or association. We followed this strategy on the simulated data provided by GAW11. The transmission/diseq...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Eichenbaum-Voline S,Baur MP,Knapp M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population isolates may be particularly useful for association studies of complex traits. This utility, however, largely depends on the transferability of tag SNPs chosen from reference samples, such as HapMap, to samples from such populations. Factors that characterize population isolates, such as widespread genetic ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Service S,International Collaborative Group on Isolated Populations.,Sabatti C,Freimer N

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific familial aggregation and evidence supporting Mendelian codominant inheritance have been shown in lung cancer. In characterizing lung cancer families, a number of other cancers have been observed. The current study evaluates whether first-degree relatives of early onset lung cancer cases are at increased ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Schwartz AG,Siegfried JM,Weiss L

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although next-generation DNA sequencing technologies have made rare variant association studies feasible and affordable, the development of powerful statistical methods for rare variant association studies is still under way. Most of the existing methods for rare variant association studies compare the number of rare ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Fang S,Sha Q,Zhang S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with complex traits. However, the genetic heritability of most of these traits remains unexplained. To help guide future studies, we address the crucial question of whether future GWAS can detect new SNP assoc...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Lindquist KJ,Jorgenson E,Hoffmann TJ,Witte JS

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present findings for familial Alzheimer's disease suggest a possible linkage to gene(s) on chromosome 21 for the early onset form and to chromosome 19 for the late onset. Since these results are not unequivocal, possible alternative hypotheses include the effect of genetic heterogeneity or of an oligogenic model o...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Macciardi F,Cavallini MC

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We address the analytical problem of evaluating the evidence for linkage at a test locus while taking into account the effect of a known linked disease locus. The method we propose is a multimarker regression approach that models the identity-by-descent states for affected sib-pairs at a series of linked markers in te...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Barber MJ,Todd JA,Cordell HJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orientals consisting of Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, and Filipinos are clearly at higher risk for cleft lip with or without cleft palate [CL(P)] than whites, Puerto Ricans, and Hawaiians/part-Hawaiians in Hawaii. Using the model of diallele cross, CL(P) incidences in incrosses and outcrosses involving 564,002 live birt...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Chung CS,Mi MP,Beechert AM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, Liang et al. ([2001b] Genet. Epidemiol. 21:105-122) proposed a conditional approach to assess linkage evidence on the target region by incorporating linkage information from an unlinked (reference) region using allele shared IBD (identity-by-decent) from affected sib pairs. This is carried out by conditionin...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Chiu YF,Liang KY

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of genome-wide association analysis can only be realized when they have power to detect signals despite the detrimental effect of multiple testing on power. We develop a weighted multiple testing procedure that facilitates the input of prior information in the form of groupings of tests. For each group a...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Roeder K,Devlin B,Wasserman L

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the genetic component of early-onset diseases requires investigation into parental genetic effects, particularly those mediated by the mother who can influence the offspring's risk of disease through the effects of her genes acting directly on the intrauterine milieu or indirectly through maternal-gene ch...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Bourgey M,Healy J,Saint-Onge P,Massé H,Sinnett D,Roy-Gagnon MH

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00