Association analysis between binary traits and common or rare genetic variants on family-based data

Jia, Jia (2015) Association analysis between binary traits and common or rare genetic variants on family-based data. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Association studies test for genetic variation influencing disease risk. We explore here the application and development of statistics for binary traits on family data. There are two main areas of focus: the first on comparing existing single-variant tests, and the second on developing a gene-based test.

In the first part, we carried out a comparative study by applying 42 family-based association test statistics on different family-based datasets, which are simulated under a variety of scenarios (varying levels of linkage disequilibrium; dominant, additive, and recessive disease models; a variety of family structures). We have compared the Type I error, power and robustness of all the statistics. The results show that, when testing the null hypothesis of no association and no linkage, among the statistics that have well-behaved Type I error, the More powerful Quasi-likelihood Score test has the highest power and high robustness.

In the second part, motivated by a need for powerful gene-based association statistics on family-based data for binary traits, we have proposed a new test statistic, which is based on a mixed model framework, Laplace's method and a variance component score test. We have compared the Type I error rates and power of our new statistic and six existing statistics by simulating different scenarios (varying the number and effect size of risk and protective variants). Our proposed statistic shows well-behaved Type I error and high power in some scenarios.

The insights gathered here may improve public health by providing information on how to effectively utilize association methods to detect genetic variants that are related to disease. Ultimately, they should help improve the understanding of disease etiology.

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Item Type:	University of Pittsburgh ETD
Status:	Unpublished
Creators/Authors:	Creators Email Pitt Username ORCID Jia, Jia jij33@pitt.edu JIJ33
ETD Committee:	Title Member Email Address Pitt Username ORCID Committee Chair Weeks, Daniel E. weeks@pitt.edu WEEKS 0000-0001-9410-7228 Committee Member Feingold, Eleanor feingold@pitt.edu FEINGOLD Committee Member Tseng, George C. ctseng@pitt.edu CTSENG Committee Member Chen, Wei wei.chen@chp.edu WEC47
Date:	29 June 2015
Date Type:	Publication
Defense Date:	25 February 2015
Approval Date:	29 June 2015
Submission Date:	6 April 2015
Access Restriction:	5 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 5 years.
Number of Pages:	143
Institution:	University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs:	School of Public Health > Biostatistics
Degree:	PhD - Doctor of Philosophy
Thesis Type:	Doctoral Dissertation
Refereed:	Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:	family-based, association analysis, common variant, rare variant, binary trait, Type I error, power.
Date Deposited:	29 Jun 2015 15:24
Last Modified:	30 Jun 2022 15:52
URI:	http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24544

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