Ziegler, A and König, I R and Thompson, J.R. (2008) Biostatistical Aspects of Genome-Wide Association Studies. Biometrical Journal, 50 (1). pp. 8-28.
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Abstract
To search the entire human genome for association is a novel and promising approach to unravelling the genetic basis of complex genetic diseases. In these genome-wide association studies (GWAs), several hundreds of thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are analyzed at the same time, posing substantial biostatistical and computational challenges. In this paper, we discuss a number of biostatistical aspects of GWAs in detail. We specifically consider quality control issues and show that signal intensity plots are a sine qua condition non in today's GWAs. Approaches to detect and adjust for population stratification are briefly examined. We discuss different strategies aimed at tackling the problem of multiple testing, including adjustment of p -values, the false positive report probability and the false discovery rate. Another aspect of GWAs requiring special attention is the search for gene-gene and gene-environment interactions. We finally describe multistage approaches to GWAs. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Grants from the European Union for funding the Cardiogenics Consortium and from the Bundesministerium f�r Bildung und Forschung are gratefully acknowledged. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cochran-Armitage trend test;False discovery rate;False positive report probability;Sequential study design;Signal intensity plot |
| Author Affiliation: | Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Statistik, Universität zu Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee Germany, Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester,UK |
| Subjects: | Statistics and Experimentation > Statistial Methods Crop Improvement |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr. SanatKumar Behera |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Mar 2012 10:21 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Mar 2012 10:22 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bimj.200710398 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/3918 |
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