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Callegaro, A.; Lebrec, J.J.P.; Houwing-Duistermaat, J.J. (2010)

Testing for Genetic Association in the Presence of Linkage and Gene-Covariate Interactions

Article / Letter to editor
In order to study family-based association in the presence of linkage, we extend a generalized linear mixed model proposed for genetic linkage analysis (Lebrec and van Houwelingen (2007), Human Heredity 64, 5-15) by adding a genotypic effect to the mean. The corresponding score test is a weighted family-based association tests statistic, where the weight depends on the linkage effect and on other genetic and shared environmental effects. For testing of genetic association in the presence of gene-covariate interaction, we propose a linear regression method where the family-specific score statistic is regressed on family-specific covariates. Both statistics are straightforward to compute. Simulation results show that adjusting the weight for the within-family variance structure may be a powerful approach in the presence of environmental effects. The test statistic for genetic association in the presence of gene-covariate interaction improved the power for detecting association. For...Show moreIn order to study family-based association in the presence of linkage, we extend a generalized linear mixed model proposed for genetic linkage analysis (Lebrec and van Houwelingen (2007), Human Heredity 64, 5-15) by adding a genotypic effect to the mean. The corresponding score test is a weighted family-based association tests statistic, where the weight depends on the linkage effect and on other genetic and shared environmental effects. For testing of genetic association in the presence of gene-covariate interaction, we propose a linear regression method where the family-specific score statistic is regressed on family-specific covariates. Both statistics are straightforward to compute. Simulation results show that adjusting the weight for the within-family variance structure may be a powerful approach in the presence of environmental effects. The test statistic for genetic association in the presence of gene-covariate interaction improved the power for detecting association. For illustration, we analyze the rheumatoid arthritis data from GAW15. Adjusting for smoking and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide increased the significance of the association with the DR locus.Show less
Family-based studies Family-based association tests Generalized linear mixed model Linkage Score test family-based association rheumatoid-arthritis quantitative traits score test detecting linkage models
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Callegaro, A.; Lebrec, J.J.P.; Houwing-Duistermaat, J.J.
Date
2010-02-28
Journal
Biometrical Journal
Volume
52
Issue
1
Pages
22 - 33