Parent-of-origin, imprinting, mitochondrial, and X-linked effects in traits related to alcohol dependence: presentation Group 18 of Genetic Analysis Workshop 14.

abstract：:Asthma and atopy are two closely related, common complex traits in which a number of genetic and environmental factors are suspected to play a role. We have performed parametric and nonparametric multi-marker linkage analysis for the Busselton data set, which is part of problem 1 of Genetic Analysis Workshop 12. In pa...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Strauch K,Bogdanow M,Fimmers R,Baur MP,Wienker TF

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a variety of methods for pooling data from eight data sets (n = 5,424 subjects) to validate evidence for linkage of markers in the cytokine cluster on chromosome 5q31-33 to asthma and asthma-associated phenotypes. Chromosome 5 markers were integrated into current genetic linkage and physical maps, and ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Jacobs KB,Burton PR,Iyengar SK,Elston RC,Palmer LJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monte Carlo methods for linkage and segregation analysis are applied to the HGAR1 pedigree. To address these data, the methods are extended in several ways. The results are compared with those provided by PAP. ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Thompson EA,Lin S,Olshen AB,Wijsman EM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic association studies of obstetric complications may genotype case and control mothers, or their respective newborns, or both case-control mothers and their children. The relatively high prevalence of many obstetric complications and the availability of both maternal and offspring's genotype data have provided m...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Chen J,Zheng H,Wilson ML,Kraft P

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Population stratification (PS) can lead to an inflated rate of false-positive findings in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The commonly used approach of adjustment for a fixed number of principal components (PCs) could have a deleterious impact on power when selected PCs are equally distributed in cases and con...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Li Q,Wacholder S,Hunter DJ,Hoover RN,Chanock S,Thomas G,Yu K

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier paper, positive but nonsignificant lod scores were found in pair-wise linkage tests between multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN-2A) and both the haptoglobin (HP) locus on chromosome 16 and group-specific component (GC) locus on chromosome 4. Recently discovered restriction fragment length polymorph...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Kidd KK,Kidd JR,Castiglione CM,Pakstis AJ,Sparkes RS

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：: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：:In traits suspected to be governed by at least two loci, linkage analysis incorporating the joint action of both loci may improve the power to detect linkage, increase the precision of estimating locus positions and provide insight into the underlying etiological mechanism. Recently, we mapped two susceptibility loci ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Pinto D,Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenité DG,Cordell HJ,Mattheisen M,Strauch K,Lindhout D,Koeleman BP

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:In genetic association studies, a single marker is often associated with multiple, correlated phenotypes (e.g., obesity and cardiovascular disease, or nicotine dependence and lung cancer). A pervasive question is then whether that marker exerts independent effects on all phenotypes. In this paper, we address this ques...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Berzuini C,Vansteelandt S,Foco L,Pastorino R,Bernardinelli L

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOE) is associated with increased risk of two major causes of death in low-mortality populations: ischemic heart disease and Alzheimer's disease. It is less common among centenarians than at younger ages. Therefore, it is likely that it is associated with excess risk of death. This a...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Ewbank DC

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Construction of multifactorial disease models from epidemiological findings and their application to disease pedigrees for risk prediction is nontrivial for all but the simplest of cases. Multifactorial Disease Risk Calculator is a web tool facilitating this. It provides a user-friendly interface, extending a reported...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Campbell DD,Li Y,Sham PC

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:GAW10 Problem 2 involves a simulated common disease defined by imposing a threshold, T, on a quantitative trait, Q1. Every individual with a value of Q1 > or = T (where T = 40) is defined as affected. Also thought to be associated with the disease as intervening variables are four other quantitative traits (Q2, Q3, Q4...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： MacCluer JW,Blangero J,Dyer TD,Speer MC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smalley et al. [(1992) Genet Epidemiol 9:333-345] found evidence of a mixture of two distributions in memory performance among offspring of patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), suggesting that these groups reflect genotypic subgroups of carriers and non-carriers of a putative DAT gene. One prediction of...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Palmer CG,Wolkenstein BH,La Rue A,Swan GE,Smalley SL

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Haplotype-sharing was examined in sets of affected siblings in the Breast Cancer Linkage Consortium pedigrees [Easton et al., 1993], using both identity-by-descent and identity-by-state methods. Linkage of the disease susceptibility locus to markers on chromosome 17 was confirmed. Substantial genetic heterogeneity was...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Barrett JH,Rigby AS

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When many correlated traits are measured the potential exists to discover the coordinated control of these traits via genotyped polymorphisms. A common statistical approach to this problem involves assessing the relationship between each phenotype and each single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) individually (PHN); and t...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Klei L,Luca D,Devlin B,Roeder K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extended transmission disequilibrium test (ETDT) of Sham and Curtis [1995] is a powerful test of the null hypothesis of no linkage between a multi-allelic marker locus and a disease susceptibility locus of unknown location in the presence of association between alleles at the two loci. We propose a generalization ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Morris A,Whittaker J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several methods have been proposed to increase power in rare variant association testing by aggregating information from individual rare variants (MAF < 0.005). However, how to best combine rare variants across multiple ethnicities and the relative performance of designs using different ethnic sampling fractions remai...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Mensah-Ablorh A,Lindstrom S,Haiman CA,Henderson BE,Marchand LL,Lee S,Stram DO,Eliassen AH,Price A,Kraft P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we proposed a multipoint method to assess evidence of linkage to one region by incorporating linkage evidence from another region. This approach uses affected sib pairs in which the number of alleles shared identical by descent (IBD) is the primary statistic. This generalized estimating equation (GEE) a...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Liang KY,Chiu YF,Beaty TH,Wjst M

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been extensive literature on modeling gene-gene interaction (GGI) and gene-environment interaction (GEI) in case-control studies with limited literature on statistical methods for GGI and GEI in longitudinal cohort studies. We borrow ideas from the classical two-way analysis of variance literature to address...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Ko YA,Saha-Chaudhuri P,Park SK,Vokonas PS,Mukherjee B

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00