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ArticleStatistical applications in genetics and molecular biology2010

Reconstructability analysis as a tool for identifying gene-gene interactions in studies of human diseases.

Stephen Shervais, Patricia L Kramer, Shawn K Westaway, Nancy J Cox, Martin Zwick

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  3. Detecting epistasis in human complex traits.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2014
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  5. Information metrics in genetic epidemiology.Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology · 2011
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Stephen ShervaisEastern Washington University, USA. sshervais@ewu.edu
Patricia L Kramer
Shawn K Westaway
Nancy J Cox
Martin Zwick

Funding

TRANSGENIC COREP60DK020595 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BELL, GRAEME I · 1985 to 2012
$25.5M
Genetic Associations with Alzheimer-free SurvivalR01AG026916 · NIA · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI KRAMER, PATRICIA L · 2005 to 2008
$1.8M
"MR Morphometrics and Cognitive Decline Rate in Large-Scale Aging Studies"K01AG030514 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI CARMICHAEL, OWEN T. · 2008 to 2012
$495k
JUNCTIONAL CHANNEL COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHY AND REGULATIONF32HL008471 · NHLBI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI BUCK, SCOTT H · 1991 to 1992
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Abstract

There are a number of common human diseases for which the genetic component may include an epistatic interaction of multiple genes. Detecting these interactions with standard statistical tools is difficult because there may be an interaction effect, but minimal or no main effect. Reconstructability analysis (RA) uses Shannon's information theory to detect relationships between variables in categorical datasets. We applied RA to simulated data for five different models of gene-gene interaction, and find that even with heritability levels as low as 0.008, and with the inclusion of 50 non-associated genes in the dataset, we can identify the interacting gene pairs with an accuracy of > or =80%. We applied RA to a real dataset of type 2 non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM) cases and controls, and closely approximated the results of more conventional single SNP disease association studies. In addition, we replicated prior evidence for epistatic interactions between SNPs on chromosomes 2 and 15.

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BiostatisticsAlgorithmsBayes TheoremCase-Control StudiesChromosomes, Human, Pair 15Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2Computer SimulationDatabases, GeneticDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2DiseaseEpistasis, GeneticGenesGenomicsHumansInheritance PatternsLinear Models

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PMID20361857
PMCPMC2861311

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