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Activity Number: 376
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
Abstract #320840
Title: The Estimation of the Association of Rare Variants and Disease in Random Effect Model
Author(s): Jin-Hua Chen*
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Keywords: rare variant ; pooled estimator ; association
Abstract:

Next generation sequencing (NGS) technology is very popular. It could detect the smaller allele frequency of variants (the penetrance is smaller than 0.01), we called the rare variants (RVs) of disease. The NGS also detected the exome sequencing and this is very distinct from GWAS. Hence, the statistical methods of GWAS could not be suitable in NGS data. RVs have the nature of high risk and smaller penetrance, any one of RVs carried the risk allele within one specific range of chromosome could increase the risk of disease, this case called the functional variants. In this study, we would focus on the relationship between RVs and disease in case-parent triad data. We have already proposed RVs random effect model to test the association on family based. Next step, we would discuss the point estimator and confidence interval for risk magnitude of the overall estimator of functional variants. The pooled estimators could calculate by meta-analysis methods.


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