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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-12-31
pubmed:abstractText
Although genetic association studies using unrelated individuals may be subject to bias caused by population stratification, alternative methods that are robust to population stratification such as family-based association designs may be less powerful. Recently, various statistical methods robust to population stratification were proposed for association studies, using unrelated individuals to identify associations between candidate markers and traits of interest (both qualitative and quantitative). Here, we propose a semiparametric test for association (SPTA). SPTA controls for population stratification through a set of genomic markers by first deriving a genetic background variable for each sampled individual through his/her genotypes at a series of independent markers, and then modeling the relationship between trait values, genotypic scores at the candidate marker, and genetic background variables through a semiparametric model. We assume that the exact form of relationship between the trait value and the genetic background variable is unknown and estimated through smoothing techniques. We evaluate the performance of SPTA through simulations both with discrete subpopulation models and with continuous admixture population models. The simulation results suggest that our procedure has a correct type I error rate in the presence of population stratification and is more powerful than statistical association tests for family-based association designs in all the cases considered. Moreover, SPTA is more powerful than the Quantitative Similarity-Based Association Test (QSAT) developed by us under continuous admixture populations, and the number of independent markers needed by SPTA to control for population stratification is substantially fewer than that required by QSAT.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0741-0395
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
44-56
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
On a semiparametric test to detect associations between quantitative traits and candidate genes using unrelated individuals.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8034, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Validation Studies