Quantitative allelic test--a fast test for very large association studies.

abstract：:A computer-simulation method is presented for determining and correcting for the effect of maximizing the lod score over disease definitions, penetrance values, and perhaps other model parameters. The method consists of simulating the complete analysis using marker genotypes randomly generated under the assumption of ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Weeks DE,Lehner T,Squires-Wheeler E,Kaufmann C,Ott J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage analysis of complex traits has had limited success in identifying trait-influencing loci. Recently, coding variants have been implicated as the basis for some biomedical associations. We tested whether coding variants are the basis for linkage peaks of complex traits in 42 African-American (n = 596) and 90 His...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Hellwege JN,Palmer ND,Raffield LM,Ng MC,Hawkins GA,Long J,Lorenzo C,Norris JM,Ida Chen YD,Speliotes EK,Rotter JI,Langefeld CD,Wagenknecht LE,Bowden DW

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regressive models that incorporate measured variables and assumed genetic parameters were used to detect interactions between gene, research site, and environmental variables in GAW11 Problem 2. Replicates 1 to 5 were used in the analyses. Significant three-way gene x environment x site interactions were seen for all ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Shin J,Corey M

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:We have conducted a study of renal sodium and potassium reabsorption in 205 pairs of twins on freely chosen diets; 89 of the subjects were studied on more than one occasion. Renal tubular sodium and potassium handling, as measured by the fractional excretions FENa and FEK, show repeatable differences between individua...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Whitfield JB,Martin NG

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevation in plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) is believed to be causally related to cardiovascular disease. Like age and sex, the thermolabile variant of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR(C677T)) is an important nonmodifiable determinant of tHcy, which may be considered when describing normal ranges of tHcy i...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Husemoen LL,Thomsen TF,Fenger M,Jørgensen HL,Jørgensen T

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four relative-pair methods for detecting genetic linkage were applied to familial Alzheimer's disease data. Results obtained using an extended Haseman-Elston test and a weighted rank pairwise correlation test, which both use information from all relative pairs, were consistent with previously published likelihood resu...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Blossey H,Commenges D,Olson JM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory disease for which positive associations have been described with some HLA-DRB1 alleles. The associated alleles share a similar amino acid sequence in the third hypervariable region, the shared epitope, but differ at position 71 and 86. It has been suggested that HLA susceptibili...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Tézenas du Montcel S,Reviron D,Genin E,Roudier J,Mercier P,Clerget-Darpoux F

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imputation is widely used for obtaining information about rare variants. However, one issue concerning imputation is the low accuracy of imputed rare variants as the inaccurate imputed rare variants may distort the results of region-based association tests. Therefore, we developed a pre-collapsing imputation method (P...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Kim YJ,Lee J,Kim BJ,T2D-Genes Consortium.,Park T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grade of membership analysis (GoM) may have particular relevance for genetic epidemiology. The method can flexibly relate genetic markers, clinical features, and environmental exposures to possible subtypes of disease termed pure types even when population allele frequencies and penetrance functions are not known. Hen...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Corder EH,Woodbury MA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The linkage between electronic health records (EHRs) and genotype data makes it plausible to study the genetic susceptibility of a wide range of disease phenotypes. Despite that EHR-derived phenotype data are subjected to misclassification, it has been shown useful for discovering susceptible genes, particularly in th...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Wang L,Damrauer SM,Zhang H,Zhang AX,Xiao R,Moore JH,Chen J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent successes of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have renewed interest in genome environment wide interaction studies (GEWIS) to discover genetic factors that modulate penetrance of environmental exposures to human diseases. Indeed, gene-environment interactions (G × E), which have not been emphasized in...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Zhao LP,Fan W,Goodman G,Radich J,Martin P

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is possible to estimate the proportionate contributions of ancestral populations to admixed individuals or populations using genetic markers, but different loci and alleles vary considerably in the amount of information that they provide. Conventionally, the allele frequency difference between parental populations ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Pfaff CL,Barnholtz-Sloan J,Wagner JK,Long JC

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When testing for genetic effects, failure to account for a gene-environment interaction can mask the true association effects of a genetic marker with disease. Family-based association tests are popular because they are completely robust to population substructure and model misspecification. However, when testing for ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Hoffmann TJ,Lange C,Vansteelandt S,Laird NM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of Genetic Analysis Workshop 17 (GAW17), our group considered the application of novel and standard approaches to the analysis of genotype-phenotype association in next-generation sequencing data. Our group identified a major issue in the analysis of the GAW17 next-generation sequencing data: type I error and ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Tintle N,Aschard H,Hu I,Nock N,Wang H,Pugh E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major locus that determines levels of apolipoprotein B (apoB) was revealed by likelihood analysis on 331 members of 36 pedigrees. The major locus explained 43.2% of the observed variance, with the remainder attributed to random environmental factors. Estimated mean apoB levels (mg/dl) were 110.5 +/- 2.5, 141.9 +/- 4...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Hasstedt SJ,Wu L,Williams RR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing interest in detection of genetic effects for complex traits along with molecular revolution has stimulated many linkage studies. Multiple replication studies tend to produce different results. In such situations, rigorous meta-analysis methods can be useful for assessing the overall evidence for linkage. W...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Li Z,Rao DC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer has predominant environmental and somatic causes but the assessment of hereditary (genetic) causes is difficult, except for highly penetrant single-gene causes. Family studies are only partially informative in this regard because family members share diet and life-styles. Twin studies have been classically used...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Hemminki K,Lönnstedt I,Vaittinen P,Lichtenstein P

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our goal was to detect genes contributing to the P300 component of the event related potential (ERP). We found that all of the ERP traits were highly correlated. Most of them distinguished alcoholics from nonalcoholics. To have one summary variable for the ERP traits, we calculated the first principal component (PRIN1...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Goldin LR,Chase GA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Association analysis has led to the identification of many genetic variants for complex diseases. While assessing the association between genes and a disease, other factors can play an important role. The consequence of not considering covariates (such as population stratification and environmental factors) is well-do...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Jiang Y,Zhang H

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inaccurate genetic (or linkage) maps can reduce the power to detect linkage, increase type I error, and distort haplotype and relationship inference. To improve the accuracy of existing maps, I propose a meta-analysis-based method that combines independent map estimates into a single estimate of the linkage map. The m...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Stewart WC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage disequilibrium mapping of quantitative traits is a powerful method for dissecting the genetic etiology of complex phenotypes. Quantitative traits, however, often exhibit characteristics that make their use problematic. For example, the distribution of the trait may be censored, highly skewed, or contaminated w...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Allen AS,Martin ER,Qin X,Li YJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard linear regression is commonly used for genetic association studies of quantitative traits. This approach may not be appropriate if the trait, on its original or transformed scales, does not follow a normal distribution. A rank-based nonparametric approach that does not rely on any distributional assumptions c...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Li Q,Li Z,Zheng G,Gao G,Yu K

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this work is the development of linear trend tests that allow for error (LTT ae), specifically incorporating double-sampling information on phenotypes and/or genotypes. We use a likelihood framework. Misclassification errors are estimated via double sampling. Unbiased estimates of penetrances and genoty...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Gordon D,Haynes C,Yang Y,Kramer PL,Finch SJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explain the association between HLA-DRB1 gene and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), two main hypotheses have been proposed. The first, the shared epitope hypothesis, assumes a direct role of DRB1 in RA susceptibility. The second hypothesis assumes a recessive disease susceptibility gene in linkage disequilibrium with DRB1...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Génin E,Babron MC,McDermott MF,Mulcahy B,Waldron-Lynch F,Adams C,Clegg DO,Ward RH,Shanahan F,Molloy MG,O'Gara F,Clerget-Darpoux F

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Recent studies have found an association between presence of apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon 4 allele and Alzheimer's disease (AD). The present study compared the cumulative risk of primary progressive dementia (PPD) in relatives of AD probands carrying at least one copy of the epsilon 4 allele with the relatives of A...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Li G,Silverman JM,Altstiel LD,Haroutunian V,Perl DP,Purohit D,Birstein S,Lantz M,Mohs RC,Davis KL

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:It has been suggested that collections of affected sib pairs, or their nuclear families, may be an efficient method for screening for genetic linkages in schizophrenia. We present the data collected in five years from 15 hospitals in the state of Maryland in an effort to determine if such a collection scheme will be f...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Pulver AE,Bale SJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) was developed as a nonparametric and model-free data mining method for detecting, characterizing, and interpreting epistasis in the absence of significant main effects in genetic and epidemiologic studies of complex traits such as disease susceptibility. The goal of MDR is to...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Pattin KA,White BC,Barney N,Gui J,Nelson HH,Kelsey KT,Andrew AS,Karagas MR,Moore JH

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00