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ArticleHuman heredity2010

An application of the latent p value method to assess linkage in asthma pedigrees.

Craig C Teerlink, Alun Thomas

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Craig C TeerlinkDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108-1266, USA. craig.teerlink @ utah.edu
Alun Thomas

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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH MEDICAL INFORMATICS TRAININGT15LM007124 · NLM · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI Karen Louise Eilbeck · 1997 to 2026
$22.0M
Proteins to Population:A metacluster for BioinformaticsS10RR017214 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI FACELLI, JULIO CESAR · 2002 to 2002
$1.5M
Graphical models for linkage disequilibrium in genetic mappingR01GM081417 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI THOMAS, ALUN · 2007 to 2010
$1.1M
NCRR NIH HHS 1 S10 RR17214-01NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM081417NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM81417NLM NIH HHS 1T15LM007124NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007124
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Abstract

objectiveThe latent p value is a recently proposed empirical method for assessing evidence against a null hypothesis in a stochastic system involving latent, unobservable variables. It is particularly applicable to genome-wide genetic linkage analysis for test statistics with poorly defined analytical distributions.

methodsWe describe an implementation of the latent p value method and its application to a linkage analysis of asthma in 81 extended pedigrees containing 1,858 people genotyped at 533 microsatellite markers. We compare the performance of the latent p value method to a more conventional p value calculation. We also compare the performance of various linkage statistics within this pedigree resource.

resultsUsing a novel linkage score referred to as the C-link statistic, our analysis provides strong evidence for a recessive gene influencing asthma on chromosome 5q13 (median latent p value = 0.03). We also demonstrate remarkable improvement in computational requirements compared to a more conventional empirical p value calculation.

conclusionsThe latent p value method is indeed feasible and provides a computationally efficient means to evaluate evidence for linkage regardless of the choice of linkage statistic.

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Genetic LinkageAnimalsAsthmaMicrosatellite RepeatsPedigree

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PMID20413977
PMCPMC2912641

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