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The impact of complex informative missingness on the validity of the transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT)
(BioMed Central, 2007-12-18)The transmission/disequilibrium test was introduced to test for linkage and association between a marker and a putative disease locus using case-parent triads. Several extensions have been proposed to accommodate incomplete ... -
Genetic Analysis Workshop 16: Strategies for Genome-Wide Association Study Analyses
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Genetics Analysis Workshop 16 Problem 2: tTe Framingham Heart Study Data
(BioMed Central, 2009-12-15)Genetic Analysis Workshop 16 (GAW16) Problem 2 presented data from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), an observational, prospective study of risk factors for cardiovascular disease begun in 1948. Data have been collected ... -
Offspring's Leukocyte Telomere Length, Paternal Age, and Telomere Elongation in Sperm
(Public Library of Science, 2008-2-15)Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is a complex genetic trait. It shortens with age and is associated with a host of aging-related disorders. Recent studies have observed that offspring of older fathers have longer LTLs. We ... -
An integration of genome-wide association study and gene expression profiling to prioritize the discovery of novel susceptibility loci for osteoporosis-related traits
(Public Library of Science, 2010-6-10)Osteoporosis is a complex disorder and commonly leads to fractures in elderly persons. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become an unbiased approach to identify variations in the genome that potentially affect ... -
Consistency of Linkage Results across Exams and Methods in the Framingham Heart Study
(BioMed Central, 2003-12-31)BACKGROUND. The repeated measures in the Framingham Heart Study in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 13 data set allow us to test for consistency of linkage results within a study across time. We compared regression-based ... -
Genome-wide association studies of serum magnesium, potassium, and sodium concentrations identify six loci influencing serum magnesium levels
(Public Library of Science, 2010-8-5)Magnesium, potassium, and sodium, cations commonly measured in serum, are involved in many physiological processes including energy metabolism, nerve and muscle function, signal transduction, and fluid and blood pressure ... -
Forty-Three Loci Associated with Plasma Lipoprotein Size, Concentration, and Cholesterol Content in Genome-Wide Analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2009-11-20)While conventional LDL-C, HDL-C, and triglyceride measurements reflect aggregate properties of plasma lipoprotein fractions, NMR-based measurements more accurately reflect lipoprotein particle concentrations according to ... -
A Three-Stage Approach for Genome-Wide Association Studies with Family Data for Quantitative Traits
(BioMed Central, 2010-5-14)BACKGROUND. Genome-wide association (GWA) studies that use population-based association approaches may identify spurious associations in the presence of population admixture. In this paper, we propose a novel three-stage ... -
On the Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies in Family-Based Designs: A Universal, Robust Analysis Approach and an Application to Four Genome-Wide Association Studies
(Public Library of Science, 2009-11-26)For genome-wide association studies in family-based designs, we propose a new, universally applicable approach. The new test statistic exploits all available information about the association, while, by virtue of its design, ...