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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2019

A statistical measure for the skewness of X chromosome inactivation based on case-control design.

Peng Wang, Yu Zhang, Bei-Qi Wang, Jian-Long Li, Yi-Xin Wang, Dongdong Pan, Xian-Bo Wu, Wing Kam Fung, Ji-Yuan Zhou

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Peng WangState Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, No. 1023, South Shatai Road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, 510515, China.
Yu ZhangState Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, No. 1023, South Shatai Road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, 510515, China.
Bei-Qi WangState Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, No. 1023, South Shatai Road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, 510515, China.
Jian-Long LiState Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, No. 1023, South Shatai Road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, 510515, China.
Yi-Xin WangDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Dongdong PanYunnan Key Laboratory of Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.
Xian-Bo WuDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Wing Kam FungDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Ji-Yuan ZhouState Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, No. 1023, South Shatai Road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, 510515, China. zhoujiyuan5460@hotmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0866-4402
Southern Medical University · CNHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CNUniversity of Hong Kong · HKYunnan University · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 81373098National Natural Science Foundation of China 81573207National Natural Science Foundation of China 81773544The General Program of Applied Basic Research Programs of Yunnan Province 2017FB002The National and Guangdong University Students' Innovation and Enterprise Training Project of China 201612121017
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSkewed X chromosome inactivation (XCI), which is a non-random process, is frequently observed in both healthy and affected females. Furthermore, skewed XCI has been reported to be related to many X-linked diseases. However, no statistical method is available in the literature to measure the degree of the skewness of XCI for case-control design. Therefore, it is necessary to develop methods for such a task.

resultsIn this article, we first proposed a statistical measure for the degree of XCI skewing by using a case-control design, which is a ratio of two logistic regression coefficients after a simple reparameterization. Based on the point estimate of the ratio, we further developed three types of confidence intervals (the likelihood ratio, Fieller's and delta methods) to evaluate its variation. Simulation results demonstrated that the likelihood ratio method and the Fieller's method have more accurate coverage probability and more balanced tail errors than the delta method. We also applied these proposed methods to analyze the Graves' disease data for their practical use and found that rs3827440 probably undergoes a skewed XCI pattern with 68.7% of cells in heterozygous females having the risk allele T active, while the other 31.3% of cells keeping the normal allele C active.

conclusionsFor practical application, we suggest using the Fieller's method in large samples due to the non-iterative computation procedure and using the LR method otherwise for its robustness despite its slightly heavy computational burden.

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Genes, X-LinkedHeterozygoteModels, StatisticalX Chromosome InactivationAllelesCase-Control StudiesChromosomes, Human, XFemaleHumansCase-control designConfidence intervalGraves’ diseaseSkewnessX chromosome inactivation

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