Methoden und Algorithmen der Kopplungsanalyse bei quantitativen Phänotypen
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Objective: To a large degree human diseases are influenced or caused by genetic
variants. In order to understand the mechanism of the disease and to treat patients in a causative way, a first step is to locate the genetic variants in the human genome. An important tool for this goal is linkage analysis. In this work, a parametric method for linkage analysis of quantitative phenotypes is presented. The method provides a test for linkage as well as an estimate of different parameters of the genotype-phenotype relation.We have implemented our new method in the program genehunter-qmod and performed simulations to compare its power and type I error to existing methods, i.e. variance components analysis (VCA) and Haseman-Elston regression.
Methods: The phenotype is modeled as a normally distributed variable, with a separate distribution for each genotype. Estimates of the genotype-specific expectation values and standard deviations are obtained by maximizing the LOD score over these parameters with a gradient-based optimization called pgrad method. That way, genehunter-qmod can both locate the putative disease locus and provide specific information about the genotype-phenotype relation.
Results: genehunter-qmod has lower power to detect linkage than VCA in ca-
se of a normal distribution and with sib pairs. However, it outperforms VCA and
Haseman-Elston regression for larger pedigrees, non-randomly ascertained data or
non-normally distributed phenotypes. Here, the higher power even goes along with
conservativeness, while VCA has an inflated type I error. Parameter estimation tends to underestimate residual variances, but performs better for expectation values of the genotype-specific phenotype distributions.
Conclusion: With genehunter-qmod, a powerful new tool is provided to ex-
plicitly model quantitative phenotypes in the context of linkage analysis. Because genehunter-qmod is based on the Lander-Green algorithm, it can simultaneously use many markers in the analysis, which makes it applicable to gene-mapping projects based on SNP arrays. The program is freely available at
http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/genepi/downloads.
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Created: 2012Issued: 2012-09-19Updated: 2012-09-19
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Medizin
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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ger
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GENEHUNTERGENEHUNTERquantitative phenotypesKopplungsanalysestatistische Genetiklinkage analysisquantitative Phänotypenstatistical genetics
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BiostatistikBiometrieBiomathematik
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Künzel, Thomas (1024461572): Methoden und Algorithmen der Kopplungsanalyse bei quantitativen Phänotypen. : Philipps-Universität Marburg 2012-09-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/z2012.0706.
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