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ArticleHuman heredity2012

On the meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies: a robust and efficient approach to combine population and family-based studies.

Sungho Won, Qing Lu, Lars Bertram, Rudolph E Tanzi, Christoph Lange

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Article in Human heredity, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  3. Statistical Approaches to Combine Genetic Association Data.Journal of biometrics & biostatistics · 2013
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5 authors.

Sungho WonDepartment of Applied Statistics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. swon@cau.ac.kr
Qing Lu
Lars Bertram
Rudolph E Tanzi
Christoph Lange

Funding

Identification and Characterization of Novel AD GenesR37MH060009 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI TANZI, RUDOLPH EMILE · 2003 to 2012
$7.6M
Novel Statistical Approaches to Mental Health Phenotype Analysis in GWA StudiesR01MH081862 · NIMH · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI LANGE, CHRISTOPH · 2009 to 2014
$2.0M
NIMH NIH HHS 1R37MH60009NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH081862NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH060009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For the meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies, we propose a new method to adjust for the population stratification and a linear mixed approach that combines family-based and unrelated samples. The proposed approach achieves similar power levels as a standard meta-analysis which combines the different test statistics or p values across studies. However, by virtue of its design, the proposed approach is robust against population admixture and stratification, and no adjustments for population admixture and stratification, even in unrelated samples, are required. Using simulation studies, we examine the power of the proposed method and compare it to standard approaches in the meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies. The practical features of the approach are illustrated with a meta-analysis of three genome-wide association studies for Alzheimer's disease. We identify three single nucleotide polymorphisms showing significant genome-wide association with affection status. Two single nucleotide polymorphisms are novel and will be verified in other populations in our follow-up study.

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Genome-Wide Association StudyMeta-Analysis as TopicModels, GeneticAlgorithmsAlzheimer DiseaseComputer SimulationHumansPolymorphism, Single Nucleotide

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PMID22261799
PMCPMC3322629

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