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GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY
卷 35, 期 3, 页码 182-189出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20566
关键词
autism sub-types; gene mapping; multivariate phenotype; score test
资金
- National Institute of Mental Health [1U24MH081810]
- Canadian Institutes for Health Research [NPE-80219]
- Fonds de la recherche en sante du Quebec
Clinical diagnoses of complex diseases may often encompass multiple genetically heterogeneous disorders. One way of dissecting this heterogeneity is to apply latent class (LC) analysis to measurements related to the diagnosis, such as detailed symptoms, to define more homogeneous disease sub-types, influenced by a smaller number of genes that will thus be more easily detectable. We have previously developed a LC model allowing dependence between the latent disease class status of relatives within families. We have also proposed a strategy to incorporate the posterior probability of class membership of each subject in parametric linkage analysis, which is not directly transferable to genetic association methods. Under the framework of family-based association tests (FBAT), we now propose to make the contribution of an affected subject to the FBAT statistic proportional to his or her posterior class membership probability. Simulations showed a modest but robust power advantage compared to simply assigning each subject to his or her most probable class, and important power gains over the analysis of the disease diagnosis without LC modeling under certain scenarios. The use of LC analysis with FBAT is illustrated using autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms on families from the Autism Genetics Research Exchange, where we examined eight regions previously associated to autism in this sample. The analysis using the posterior probability of membership to an LC detected an association in the JARID2 gene as significant as that for ASD (P = 3 x 10(-5)) but with a larger effect size (odds ratio = 2.17 vs. 1.55). Genet. Epidemiol. 35:182-189, 2011. (c) 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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