One-stage design is empirically more powerful than two-stage design for family-based genome-wide association studies

Finding a genetic marker associated with a trait is a classic problem in human genetics. Recently, two-stage approaches have gained popularity in marker-trait association studies, in part because researchers hope to reduce the multiple testing problem by testing fewer markers in the final stage. We compared one two-stage family-based approach to an analogous single-stage method, calculating the empirical type I error rates and power for both methods using fully simulated data sets modeled on nuclear families with rheumatoid arthritis, and data sets of real single-nucleotide polymorphism genotypes from Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain pedigrees with simulated traits. In these analyses performed in the absence of population stratification, the single-stage method was consistently more powerful than the two-stage method for a given type I error rate. To explore the sources of this difference, we performed a case study comparing the individual steps of two-stage designs, the two-stage design itself, and the analogous one-stage design.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2007

Erschienen:

2007

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:1 Suppl 1

Enthalten in:

BMC proceedings - 1 Suppl 1(2007) vom: 28., Seite S137

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rohlfs, Rori V [VerfasserIn]
Taylor, Chelsea [VerfasserIn]
Mirea, Lucia [VerfasserIn]
Bull, Shelley B [VerfasserIn]
Corey, Mary [VerfasserIn]
Anderson, Amy D [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article

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Date Completed 15.12.2009

Date Revised 28.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM179440799