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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-10-18
pubmed:abstractText
Using data simulated to reflect an oligogenic disease, we evaluated screening strategies based on lod-score and weighted pairwise correlation (WPC) analysis with respect to their ability to efficiently identify regions near disease loci. Lod-score analysis was done twice, once assuming a near-recessive mode of inheritance with a high penetrance and again assuming a semidominant mode of inheritance with lower penetrance. Under the near-recessive model, no disease loci were correctly identified, while there was one false positive result. Under the semidominant model, D1G31 was correctly identified, and there were two false positive results. Due to the lack of highly informative families and possible sensitivity to parameter misspecification, this poor performance was not unexpected. WPC, on the other hand, is assumption-free and thus potentially more powerful than a misspecified parametric model, but almost certainly less powerful than a well-specified parametric model. Using WPC modified to handle binary phenotypes with no age-of-onset, we found results closely resembling those under the semidominant model, although no markers near disease loci exceeded the theoretical critical value for WPC.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0741-0395
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
665-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Evaluation of screening strategies to detect an oligogenic disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article