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Activity Number: 418
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Abstract - #309107
Title: A Gene-Based Multilevel Model for Candidate Gene Resequencing Studies Augmented by Population Genetic Information
Author(s): Christopher Ryan King*+ and Paul J. Rathouz and Dan Nicolae
Companies: The University of Chicago and The University of Chicago and The University of Chicago
Address: 5841 South Maryland Ave , Chicago, IL, 60637,
Keywords: genetics ; sequencing ; multilevel ; candidate gene ; population genetic ; SNP
Abstract:

Projects to determine the impact of rare genetic variation on human diseases and other phenotypes with base-pair by base-pair resequencing of candidate genes in many subjects are underway, but lack adequate analytic methods. We present a multilevel linear model which uses population genetic theory to specify hypotheses about SNP effects as a function of frequency. Our model suggests a pooling strategy for all information within a gene for efficient testing. We demonstrate analysis of a continuous or binary trait in a prospective sample. In simulation we show substantial power improvements over regression or allele-count methods in scenarios of interest and determine robustness to errors in tuning parameters. We also show how to incorporate additional prior information on SNP effects from mutation type, location and phylogenetics.


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