Article
Power of genome-wide association studies in the presence of interacting loci.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Nov 2007
Pickrell Joseph, Clerget-Darpoux Françoise, Bourgain Catherine
Abstract excerpt
Though multiple interacting loci are likely involved in the etiology of complex diseases, early genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have depended on the detection of the marginal effects of each locus. Here, we evaluate the power of GWAS in the presence of two linked and potentially associated causal loci for several models of interaction between them and find that interacting loci may give rise to marginal...
Topics
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome, Human
- Genotype
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Models, Genetic
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quantitative Trait Loci
