Risk factors for atherosclerosis in twins.

abstract：:A genetic epidemiologic investigation of breast cancer involving 389 breast cancer pedigrees including information on 14,721 individuals from the Icelandic population-based cancer registry is presented. Probands were women born in or after 1920 and reported to have breast cancer in the cancer registry. The average age...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Baffoe-Bonnie AB,Beaty TH,Bailey-Wilson JE,Kiemeney LA,Sigvaldason H,Olafsdóttir G,Tryggvadóttir L,Tulinius H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family data are useful for estimating disease risk in carriers of specific genotypes of a given gene (penetrance). Penetrance is frequently estimated assuming that relatives' phenotypes are independent, given their genotypes for the gene of interest. This assumption is unrealistic when multiple shared risk factors con...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Gong G,Hannon N,Whittemore AS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing recognition that gene-environment interaction (G × E) plays a pivotal role in the development and progression of complex diseases. Despite a wealth of genetic data on various complex diseases/traits generated from association and sequencing studies, detecting G × E via genome-wide analysis remains c...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Wang J,Liu Q,Pierce BL,Huo D,Olopade OI,Ahsan H,Chen LS

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Path analysis of nuclear family data has been widely applied to resolve genetic and environmental sources of familial resemblance. Here we report the results of a systematic evaluation of the effects of departures from five modeling assumptions often made when analyzing nuclear family data; i) the observed environment...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： McGue M,Wette R,Rao DC

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:By analyzing more next-generation sequencing data, researchers have affirmed that rare genetic variants are widespread among populations and likely play an important role in complex phenotypes. Recently, a handful of statistical models have been developed to analyze rare variant (RV) association in different study des...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： He L,Sillanpää MJ,Ripatti S,Pitkäniemi J

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently developed nonparametric method is a generalization of the transmission disequilibrium test across all alleles of a locus. This approach has been applied to Problem 2 of GAW10 and has been extended to explore the combined contribution of neighboring loci for chromosomes 1, 5, and 8. When applied to the chrom...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Neas BR,Moser KL,Harley JB

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meta-analysis has been little explored to make an overall assessment of linkage from different studies. In practice, it is likely that published linkage studies will only report p-values. We compared the performance of the widely used Fisher method for combining p-values with that of pooling raw data. More loci were c...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Guerra R,Etzel CJ,Goldstein DR,Sain SR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of classical segregation analysis on 159 families with polycystic kidney disease (PKD) are presented. It had been previously estimated that about 95% of autosomal dominant PKD (ADPKD) families have PKD1, the gene localized to chromosome 16p. The main purpose of the study was to determine if PKD shows any s...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Dobin A,Kimberling WJ,Pettinger W,Bailey-Wilson JE,Shugart YY,Gabow P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family-based designs enriched with affected subjects and disease associated variants can increase statistical power for identifying functional rare variants. However, few rare variant analysis approaches are available for time-to-event traits in family designs and none of them applicable to the X chromosome. We develo...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Chien LC,Bowden DW,Chiu YF

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in high throughput technology have enabled the generation of unprecedented amounts of genomic data (e.g., next-generation sequence data, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and proteomics), which promises to unravel the genetic architecture of complex traits. These discoveries may lead to novel therapeutic targets...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Lee SM,Karrison TG,Cox NJ,Im HK

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multipoint linkage analysis using sibpair designs remains a common approach to help investigators to narrow chromosomal regions for traits (either qualitative or quantitative) of interest. Despite its popularity, the success of this approach depends heavily on how issues such as genetic heterogeneity, gene-gene, and g...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Chiou JM,Liang KY,Chiu YF

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new approach to detect gene × gene joint action in genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for case-control designs. This approach offers an exhaustive search for all two-way joint action (including, as a special case, single gene action) that is computationally feasible at the genome-wide level and has r...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Won S,Kwon MS,Mattheisen M,Park S,Park C,Kihara D,Cichon S,Ophoff R,Nöthen MM,Rietschel M,Baur M,Uitterlinden AG,Hofmann A,GROUP Investigators.,Lange C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the risk of a disease associated with the joint effects of genetic susceptibility and environmental exposures, epidemiologic researchers often test for non-multiplicative gene-environment effects from case-control studies. In this article, we present a comparative study of four alternative tests for intera...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Mukherjee B,Ahn J,Gruber SB,Rennert G,Moreno V,Chatterjee N

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of complex traits likely involves the effects of genetic and environmental factors, along with complicated interaction effects between them. Consequently, there has been interest in applying genetic association tests of complex traits that account for potential modification of the genetic effect in the pr...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Broadaway KA,Duncan R,Conneely KN,Almli LM,Bradley B,Ressler KJ,Epstein MP

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jewish women have been reported to have a higher risk for familial breast cancer than non-Jewish women and to be more likely to carry mutations in breast cancer genes such as BRCA1. Because BRCA1 mutations also increase women's risk for ovarian cancer, we asked whether Jewish women are at higher risk for familial ovar...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Steinberg KK,Pernarelli JM,Marcus M,Khoury MJ,Schildkraut JM,Marchbanks PA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atopic disease is generally recognized to be familial, although specific genetic components have yet to be identified. High levels of a unique class of immunoglobulins, immunoglobulin E (IgE), have been shown to be associated with allergies. Several investigators have reported evidence indicating a recessive regulator...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Borecki IB,Rao DC,Lalouel JM,McGue M,Gerrard JW

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined familial resemblance and performed segregation analysis for the maximal expiratory flow rate at 50% of vital capacity (Vmax50) and the ratio of Vmax50 to forced vital capacity (FVC), based on data from 309 nuclear families with 1,045 individuals in the town of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, in 1993. Vmax50 is con...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Chen Y,Dosman JA,Rennie DC,Lockinger LA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several statistical tests for linkage between a disease susceptibility locus and a marker locus for sib-pair data are examined analytically. Two common statistics, a test based on the mean number of marker alleles shared identical by descent by sib-pairs, and a test based on the proportion of sib-pairs sharing exactly...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Schaid DJ,Nick TG

更新日期：1990-01-01 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 use of patterned covariance matrices in forming pedigree-based mixed models for quantitative traits is discussed. It is suggested that patterned covariance matrix models provide intuitive, theoretically appealing, and flexible genetic modeling devices for pedigree data. It is suggested further that the very great ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Schork N

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several approaches were taken to identify the loci contributing to the quantitative and qualitative phenotypes in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 12 simulated data set. To identify possible quantitative trait loci (QTL), the quantitative traits were analyzed using SOLAR. The four replicates identified as the "best repli...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Pankratz N,Kirkwood SC,Flury L,Koller DL,Foroud T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the theory and implementation of a model for mapping X-linked quantitative trait loci (QTL). As a result of X inactivation, a female's body is subdivided into a number of patches. In each patch one of her two X chromosomes is randomly switched off. This smooths the allelic contributions in a heter...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Lange K,Sobel E

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiplicity problem has become increasingly important in genetic studies as the capacity for high-throughput genotyping has increased. The control of False Discovery Rate (FDR) (Benjamini and Hochberg. [1995] J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. B 57:289-300) has been adopted to address the problems of false positive control an...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Sun L,Craiu RV,Paterson AD,Bull SB

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We combined the five chromosome 18 bipolar affective disorder data sets provided by GAW10, totaling 185 families with 3,394 individuals, and performed analysis of differential parental transmission and chromosome 18 marker allele sharing in families with transmission through fathers vs those through mothers. Results i...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Lin JP,Bale SJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:Haplotype sharing analysis is a well-established option for the investigation of the etiology of complex diseases. The statistical power of haplotype association methods depends strongly on how the information of unobserved haplotypes can be captured by multilocus genotypes. In this study we combine an entropy-based m...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Schulz A,Fischer C,Chang-Claude J,Beckmann L

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the unblinded MG1/Q1 Genetic Analysis Workshop 12 simulated data as a model system for investigating the use of linkage disequilibrium structure and simple genotype-phenotype associations to identify candidate functional mutations within a gene of interest. Analysis of the pattern of pairwise linkage dise...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Huang Q,Morrison AC,Boerwinkle E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulation studies were conducted to assess to what extent the conclusions of segregation analysis, performed under the unified model, can be affected by the presence of unmeasured environmental factors shared by family members. Dichotomous data were generated on six-member nuclear families under two variants of the m...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Demenais F,Abel L

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a projection regression model (PRM) to assess the relationship between a multivariate phenotype and a set of covariates, such as a genetic marker, age, and gender. In the existing literature, a standard statistical approach to this problem is to fit a multivariate linear model to the multivariate p...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Lin JA,Zhu H,Knickmeyer R,Styner M,Gilmore J,Ibrahim JG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00