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WHOLE GENOME ANALYSIS OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM ALLELE FREQUENCY AND FALSE POSITIVE RATE

Tsai, Pei-Chien (2009) WHOLE GENOME ANALYSIS OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM ALLELE FREQUENCY AND FALSE POSITIVE RATE. Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Genome-wide association (GWA) studies are used widely for detecting gene variants' contribution to diseases and traits. Recent researches indicate to several methodological challenges in the study design for GWA, for example, sample size issues, power calculations, false positive rate adjustments, and commercial chips' coverage of the genome. Chromosomal regions can also influence the observed genetic diversity under certain conditions; mainly the regions of secondary structures and large-scale repeats may affect the fidelity in marker genotyping. This study was to find such regions that contained markers with more variability and to examine the correlation of this variability to the factors relevant in a GWA study design, such as the false positive rate. We enrolled healthy controls from eight independent GWA designs then assigned randomly into case and control status. Minor allele frequency estimates, and case-control association analyses were performed using PLINK for sets with different sample sizes. Marker numbers exhibiting high variability in the allele frequency estimates, and the average number of false positives were calculated for bins across the autosomal genome. We found that SNP variability (in allele frequency) was unrelated to the sample size. More variable regions correlated to regions of more average number of false positives, after adjusting for confounders, such as sample size. We suggested that regions with more variability might have structural characteristics that made them difficult to be scanned during the genotyping process. Our study has great public health relevance because regions with more variability could undermine the effective study of a candidate genes and disease relationship during a research, or worse leading to erroneous conclusions. We advise in studying these regions, the researchers could lower their false positive rates to avoid inaccurately significant levels.


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Item Type: University of Pittsburgh ETD
Status: Unpublished
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Tsai, Pei-Chienpet14@pitt.edu, 4mbertpc@gmail.comPET14
ETD Committee:
TitleMemberEmail AddressPitt UsernameORCID
Committee ChairBarmada, M. Michaelbarmada@pitt.eduBARMADA
Committee CoChairFeingold, Eleanorfeingold@pitt.eduFEINGOLD
Committee MemberTseng, Chien-Cheng (George)ctseng@pitt.eduCTSENG
Date: 29 September 2009
Date Type: Completion
Defense Date: 31 July 2009
Approval Date: 29 September 2009
Submission Date: 29 July 2009
Access Restriction: No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: School of Public Health > Biostatistics
Degree: MS - Master of Science
Thesis Type: Master's Thesis
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: Genome-wide association study; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Minor allele frequency; False positive rate
Other ID: http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-07292009-200507/, etd-07292009-200507
Date Deposited: 10 Nov 2011 19:55
Last Modified: 15 Nov 2016 13:47
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/8721

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