A unified test of linkage analysis and rare-variant association for analysis of pedigree sequence data.

ABSTRACT: High-throughput sequencing of related individuals has become an important tool for studying human disease. However, owing to technical complexity and lack of available tools, most pedigree-based sequencing studies rely on an ad hoc combination of suboptimal analyses. Here we present pedigree-VAAST (pVAAST), a disease-gene identification tool designed for high-throughput sequence data in pedigrees. pVAAST uses a sequence-based model to perform variant and gene-based linkage analysis. Linkage information is then combined with functional prediction and rare variant case-control association information in a unified statistical framework. pVAAST outperformed linkage and rare-variant association tests in simulations and identified disease-causing genes from whole-genome sequence data in three hu

SUBMITTER: Hu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4157619 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature