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ArticleStatistics in biosciences2009

Maximizing the Power of Genome-Wide Association Studies: A Novel Class of Powerful Family-Based Association Tests.

Sungho Won, Lars Bertram, David Becker, Rudolph E Tanzi, Christoph Lange

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Article in Statistics in biosciences, 2009. 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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Sungho WonDepartment of Statistics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Lars Bertram
David Becker
Rudolph E Tanzi
Christoph Lange

Funding

Statistical GeneticsP01HL083069 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI WEISS, SCOTT T · 2007 to 2011
$12.2M
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
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL083069NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH081862
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Abstract

For genome-wide association studies in family-based designs, a new, universally applicable approach is proposed. Using a modified Liptak's method, we combine the p-value of the family-based association test (FBAT) statistic with the p-value for the Van Steen-statistic. The Van Steen-statistic is independent of the FBAT-statistic and utilizes information that is ignored by traditional FBAT-approaches. The new test statistic takes advantages of all available information about the genetic association, while, by virtue of its design, it achieves complete robustness against confounding due to population stratification. The approach is suitable for the analysis of almost any trait type for which FBATs are available, e.g. binary, continuous, time to-onset, multivariate, etc. The efficiency and the validity of the new approach depend on the specification of a nuisance/tuning parameter and the weight parameters in the modified Liptak's method. For different trait types and ascertainment conditions, we discuss general guidelines for the optimal specification of the tuning parameter and the weight parameters. Our simulation experiments and an application to an Alzheimer study show the validity and the efficiency of the new method, which achieves power levels that are comparable to those of population-based approaches.

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PMCPMC3349940

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