A sliding-window weighted linkage disequilibrium test.

Abstract:

:Multilocus linkage disequilibrium (LD) tests that consider inter-marker (LD) are more powerful than single-locus tests when disease etiology is contributed simultaneously by several linked and correlated loci. However, inclusion of redundant non-informative markers may result in reduced testing power and/or inflated false-positive rate, therefore selection of proper marker sets is important in such tests. We introduce a unified LD test based on a convenient marker-selection procedure (sliding window) combined with an adjustment approach (marker weighting) to dilute the impact of nuisance markers on tests. The proposed procedure includes several conventional p-value combination methods as its special cases. Simulation studies were performed to evaluate the impact of inclusion of nuisance markers and performance of the procedure. The results showed that testing power was often inversely proportional to the quantity of nuisance markers. Among a class of p-value combination methods, the product p-value method had the highest testing power. P-value truncation somewhat reduced the testing power but controlled the false-positive rate well. Compared with conventional unweighted approaches, the weighted strategy alleviated the false-positive rate and/or increased testing power when nuisance markers were included. Analyses of two authentic data sets for psoriasis and Alzheimer's disease using our proposed method confirmed previous findings.

journal_name

Genet Epidemiol

journal_title

Genetic epidemiology

authors

Yang HC,Lin CY,Fann CS

doi

10.1002/gepi.20165

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-09-01 00:00:00

pages

531-45

issue

6

eissn

0741-0395

issn

1098-2272

journal_volume

30

pub_type

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