Efficient computation of patterned covariance matrix mixed models in quantitative segregation analysis.

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：:We used a case-control design to scan the genome for any associations between genetic markers and disease susceptibility loci using the first two replicates of the Mycenaean population from the GAW11 (Problem 2) data. Using a case-control approach, we constructed a series of 2-by-3 tables for each allele of every mark...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Yang Q,Khoury MJ,Atkinson M,Sun F,Cheng R,Flanders WD

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genome-wide correlation analysis and cluster analysis were utilized to determine chromosomal regions that had similar nonparametric linkage scores across families in order to locate interacting susceptibility loci for asthma. Conditional analysis was performed to detect any increase in lod score over baseline. Eight...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Colilla S,Tsalenko A,Pluznikov A,Cox NJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for estimating excess relative risks of a disease from familial factors. Beginning with population-based series of cases and controls, a cohort of each subject's relatives is formed and checked for disease against a population based registry. The disease experience of the cohort formed from each ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Kerber RA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantel statistics provide an additional step to standard approaches in the analysis of gene expression and covariate data, allow the calculation of standard statistics such as correlation, partial correlation, and regression coefficients, and, with permutation tests, provide P values for these statistics to relate the...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Shannon WD,Watson MA,Perry A,Rich K

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex diseases are presumed to be the results of interactions of several genes and environmental factors, with each gene only having a small effect on the disease. Thus, the methods that can account for gene-gene interactions to search for a set of marker loci in different genes or across genome and to analyze these...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Zhang Z,Zhang S,Wong MY,Wareham NJ,Sha Q

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:We present a range of modelling components designed to facilitate Bayesian analysis of genetic-association-study data. A key feature of our approach is the ability to combine different submodels together, almost arbitrarily, for dealing with the complexities of real data. In particular, we propose various techniques f...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Lunn DJ,Whittaker JC,Best N

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：: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：: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：:To better understand the contribution of major gene influences to individual differences in cardiovascular reactivity, we performed a segregation analysis on blood pressure responses to two laboratory tasks, mental arithmetic and bicycle exercise. The study population consisted of 1,451 adults (age > or = 18 years) wh...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Cheng LS,Carmelli D,Hunt SC,Williams RR

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of study designs, using unrelated or family controls, were used to investigate the pattern of association with disease of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within candidate gene 1 (simulated data). Strong evidence of disease association at the functional locus was detected using all study designs, and in ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Saunders CL,Crockford GP,Bishop DT,Barrett JH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have conducted a simulation study in small pedigrees to investigate the power to detect linkage and heterogeneity for a disorder due to either one of two independent disease loci. We have considered a highly polymorphic marker locus (PIC = 70%) linked to one disease locus and unlinked to the second. The power to de...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Martinez M,Goldin LR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three characteristics of genetic epidemiology that distinguish it from its parent disciplines are a focus on population-based research, a focus on the joint effects of genes and the environment, and the incorporation of the underlying biology of the disease into its conceptual models. These principles are illustrated ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Thomas DC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial neural networks were applied to the alcoholism data to reveal nonlinear relationships between intermediate phenotypes, marker identity-by-descent sharing, and the affection status. A variable number of hidden units were considered to achieve a balance between the minimal mean-squared error and over-fitting ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Li W,Haghighi F,Falk CT

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed allele frequency distribution at the hypervariable locus 3' to the apolipoprotein B gene in a healthy population sample (241 women and 246 men) from the Belgrade area. The bimodal distribution of sixteen different hypervariable region (HVR) alleles and the heterozygosity index (average 0.76) in both s...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Alavantić D,Glisić S,Kandić I

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:The present report summarizes findings on 670 cases of autosomal trisomy diagnosed in Scotland, with actual or expected dates of delivery in 1990 to 1994 inclusive. Cases were notified by cytogenetic service laboratories. There were 277 prenatal and 369 postnatal diagnoses and 24 spontaneous losses. Excluding the latt...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Carothers AD,Boyd E,Lowther G,Ellis PM,Couzin DA,Faed MJ,Robb A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping of the human genome has the potential to transform the traditional methods of genetic epidemiology. The complete draft sequence of the 3.3 billion nucleotides comprising the genome is now available over the Internet, including the location and nearly complete sequence of the 26,000 to 31,000 protein-encoding g...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Sellers TA,Yates JR

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:Understanding the genetic background of complex diseases and disorders plays an essential role in the promising precision medicine. The evaluation of candidate genes, however, requires time-consuming and expensive experiments given a large number of possibilities. Thus, computational methods have seen increasing appli...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Zhang Y,Chen Y,Hu T

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose methods to construct meiotic gene maps while controlling the probability of a decision-error. First, a single step gene ordering procedure is presented whose decision-error probability is bounded above by a prespecified threshold. The bound for the error probability is valid under quite general circumstance...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Rogatko A,Babb J,Jordan H,Zacks S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recurrence risks for an X-linked disease with incomplete penetrance are evaluated for a sib given that an isolated proband (male or female) is affected. The derived formulae are applied to the X-linked form of Alport and fragile X syndromes. ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Rogatko A

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS) is a disorder that has an elevated frequency in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean (SLSJ) and Charlevoix, two geographically isolated regions in the past of northeastern Quebec. The incidence at birth and the carrier rate in SLSJ were estimated at 1/1,932 liveborn i...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： De Braekeleer M,Giasson F,Mathieu J,Roy M,Bouchard JP,Morgan K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly significant familial aggregation of eosinophil levels (X2(3) = 38.00) was detected in a sample from three Brazilian populations with a high incidence of helminthic parasitism. The data were unable to resolve genetic or common environment causation due to the lack of environmental concomitant variables. Result...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Moro-Furlani AM,Krieger H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, many genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been conducted to explore association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with complex diseases using a case-control design. These GWASs not only collect information on the disease status (primary phenotype, D) and the SNPs (genotypes, X), but...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Ray D,Basu S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is commonly believed that multiple interacting genes increase the susceptibility of genetically complex diseases, yet few linkage analyses of human diseases scan for more than one locus at a time. To overcome some of the statistical and computational limitations of a simultaneous search for two disease susceptibili...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Schaid DJ,McDonnell SK,Carlson EE,Thibodeau SN,Ostrander EA,Stanford JL

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence suggests that a genetic variant can affect multiple phenotypes, especially in complex human diseases. Therefore, joint analysis of multiple phenotypes may offer new insights into disease etiology. Recently, many statistical methods have been developed for joint analysis of multiple phenotypes, includ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Li X,Zhang S,Sha Q

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00