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Multilocus linkage tests based on affected relative pairs

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Heather Cordell

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Abstract

For complex diseases, recent interest has focused on methods that take into account joint effects at interacting loci. Conditioning on effects of disease loci at known locations can lead to increased power to detect effects at other loci. Moreover, use of joint models allows investigation of the etiologic mechanisms that may be involved in the disease. Here we present a method for simultaneous analysis of the joint genetic effects at several loci that uses affected relative pairs. The method is a generalization of the two-locus LOD-score analysis for affected sib pairs proposed by Cordell et al. We derive expressions for the relative risk, lambdaR, to a relative of an affected individual, in terms of the additive and epistatic components of variance at an arbitrary number of disease loci, and we show how these can be used to fit a likelihood model to the identity-by-descent sharing among pairs of affected relatives in extended pedigrees. We implement the method by use of a stepwise strategy in which, given evidence of linkage to disease at m-1 locations on the genome, we calculate the conditional likelihood curve across the genome for an mth disease locus, using multipoint methods similar to those proposed by Kruglyak et al. We evaluate the properties of our method by use of simulated data and present an application to real data from families with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.


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Author(s): Cordell HJ; Wedig GC; Jacobs KB; Elston RC

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: American Journal of Human Genetics

Year: 2000

Volume: 66

Issue: 4

Pages: 1273-1286

ISSN (print): 0002-9297

ISSN (electronic): 1537-6605

Publisher: Cell Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/302847

DOI: 10.1086/302847

Notes: 0002-9297 (Print) Journal Article


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