Comparison of two linkage inference procedures for genes related to the P300 component of the event related potential.

abstract：:Given the rapid pace with which genomics and other -omics disciplines are evolving, it is sometimes necessary to shift down a gear to consider more general scientific questions. In this line, in my presidential address I formulate six questions for genetic epidemiologists to ponder on. These cover the areas of reprodu...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： König IR

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to develop a simple method for testing gene-environment interaction in twin data ascertained through affected twins (probands), with known exposure status of both cotwins. To this end we derived formulae for two epidemiologic measures, as a function of prevalence of an exposure and genotype, and disease ri...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Ottman R

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：: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：: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：: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：:Bone mass may be so reduced in some individuals as to be characterized as osteoporotic, with resulting fracture, particularly of the proximal femur, vertebrae, or wrist. We identified 34 mother-daughter sets (n = 70) and 29 sibling sets (n = 59) from a community study of bone mass correlates to assess the degree of re...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Sowers MR,Burns TL,Wallace RB

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the Genetic Analysis Workshop 12 simulated data, we contrasted results for association tests in nuclear families and extended pedigrees using single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data, and we compared results for different trait definitions, for outbred and isolate populations, and for SNP and microsatellite dat...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Wilk JB,Volcjak JS,Myers RH,Maher NE,Knowlton BA,Heard-Costa NL,Demissie S,Cupples LA,DeStefano AL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput sequencing data can be used to predict phenotypes from genotypes, and this corresponds to establishing a prognostic model. In extended pedigrees the relatedness of subjects provides additional information so that genetic values, fixed or random genetic components, and heritability can be estimated. At ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Ziegler A,Bohossian N,Diego VP,Yao C

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The univariate analysis of categorical twin data can be performed using either structural equation modeling (SEM) or logistic regression. This paper presents a comparison between these two methods using a simulation study. Dichotomous and ordinal (three category) twin data are simulated under two different sample size...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Ramakrishnan V,Meyer JM,Goldberg J,Henderson WG

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Sub-Saharan Africa has been identified as the part of the world with the greatest human genetic diversity. This high level of diversity causes difficulties for genome-wide association (GWA) studies in African populations-for example, by reducing the accuracy of genotype imputation in African populations compared to no...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Huang L,Jakobsson M,Pemberton TJ,Ibrahim M,Nyambo T,Omar S,Pritchard JK,Tishkoff SA,Rosenberg NA

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：: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：:With new technologies, multiple types of genomic data are commonly collected on a single set of samples. However, standard analysis methods concentrate on a single data type at a time and ignore the relationships between genes, proteins, and biochemical reactions that give rise to complex phenotypes. In this paper, we...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Fridley BL,Lund S,Jenkins GD,Wang L

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：: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：:Methods to account for population structure (PS) in genome-wide association studies have been well developed in samples of unrelated individuals, but when a sample is composed of families, the task of finding and accounting for PS is not as straight forward. Family-based tests that condition on parental genotypes or t...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Peloso GM,Dupuis J,Lunetta KL

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex segregation analysis and linkage methods are mathematical techniques for the genetic dissection of complex diseases. They are used to delineate complex modes of familial transmission and to localize putative disease susceptibility loci to specific chromosomal locations. The computational problem of Bayesian li...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Matthysse S

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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：:The mixed model of segregation analysis specifies major gene effects and partitions the residual variance into polygenic and environmental components. The model explains familial correlations essentially in terms of genetic causation. The regressive model, on the other hand, is constructed by successively conditioning...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Demenais FM,Bonney GE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Apolipoprotein A-IV (APO A-IV) is a major protein component of mesenteric lymph chylomicrons and very-low-density lipoproteins. It is found in plasma predominantly unassociated with major lipoprotein fractions and in high density lipoproteins. APO A-IV exhibits structural heterogeneity owing to two codominant alleles,...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Eichner JE,Kuller LH,Ferrell RE,Kamboh MI

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of studies for the association of BRCA1 genotypes and haplotypes with sporadic breast cancer have been inconsistent. Therefore, a candidate single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) approach was used in a breast cancer case-control study to explore genotypes and haplotypes that have the potential to affect protein ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Ricks-Santi LJ,Nie J,Marian C,Ochs-Balcom HM,Trevisan M,Edge SB,Kanaan Y,Freudenheim JL,Shields PG

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the independent contributions of a candidate gene and an environmental factor, and the presence of gene x environment (G x E) interaction, in the etiology of a disease in the Genetic Analysis Workshop (GAW) 12 problem 2 simulated data using a two-stage approach utilizing both case-control and case-pare...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Norris JM,Selinger-Leneman H,Génin E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the utility of two approaches for exploiting pleiotropy to search for genes influencing related traits. To do this we first assessed the genetic correlations among a set of five closely related quantitative traits (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, Q5). We then used the genetic correlations among these five traits both ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Comuzzie AG,Mahaney MC,Almasy L,Dyer TD,Blangero J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Logistic regression is the primary analysis tool for binary traits in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Multinomial regression extends logistic regression to multiple categories. However, many phenotypes more naturally take ordered, discrete values. Examples include (a) subtypes defined from multiple sources of ...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： German CA,Sinsheimer JS,Klimentidis YC,Zhou H,Zhou JJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the relevance of the genetic determination of bone mineral density (BMD) variation to that of differential risk to osteoporotic fractures (OF). The high heritability (h(2)) of BMD and the significant phenotypic correlations between high BMD and low risk to OF are well known. Little is reported on h(2) f...

journal_title：Genetic epidemiology

authors： Deng HW,Mahaney MC,Williams JT,Li J,Conway T,Davies KM,Li JL,Deng H,Recker RR

更新日期：2002-01-01 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