Genome-wide association filtering using a highly locus-specific transmission/disequilibrium test.

ABSTRACT: Multimarker transmission/disequilibrium tests (TDTs) are powerful association and linkage tests used to perform genome-wide filtering in the search for disease susceptibility loci. In contrast to case/control studies, they have a low rate of false positives for population stratification and admixture. However, the length of a region found in association with a disease is usually very large because of linkage disequilibrium (LD). Here, we define a multimarker proportional TDT (mTDT ( P )) designed to improve locus specificity in complex diseases that has good power compared to the most powerful multimarker TDTs. The test is a simple generalization of a multimarker TDT in which haplotype frequencies are used to weight the effect that each haplotype has on the whole measure. Two concepts unde

SUBMITTER: Abad-Grau MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2921505 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature