From phenotype to genotype: an association study of longitudinal phenotypic markers to Alzheimer's disease relevant SNPs.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Imaging genetic studies typically focus on identifying single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers associated with imaging phenotypes. Few studies perform regression of SNP values on phenotypic measures for examining how the SNP values change when phenotypic measures are varied. This alternative approach may have a potential to help us discover important imaging genetic associations from a different perspective. In addition, the imaging markers are often measured over time, and this longitudinal profile may provide increased power for differentiating genotype groups. How to identify the longitudinal phenotypic markers associated to disease sensitive SNPs is an important and challenging research topic.

Results

Taking into account the temporal structure of the long

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3436838 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature