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1: Nat Genet. 2006 Jun;38(6):663-7. Epub 2006 May 21.Click here to read Links
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Nat Genet. 2006 Jun;38(6):605-6.

Evaluating and improving power in whole-genome association studies using fixed marker sets.

Pe'er I, de Bakker PI, Maller J, Yelensky R, Altshuler D, Daly MJ.

Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.

Emerging technologies make it possible for the first time to genotype hundreds of thousands of SNPs simultaneously, enabling whole-genome association studies. Using empirical genotype data from the International HapMap Project, we evaluate the extent to which the sets of SNPs contained on three whole-genome genotyping arrays capture common SNPs across the genome, and we find that the majority of common SNPs are well captured by these products either directly or through linkage disequilibrium. We explore analytical strategies that use HapMap data to improve power of association studies conducted with these fixed sets of markers and show that limited inclusion of specific haplotype tests in association analysis can increase the fraction of common variants captured by 25-100%. Finally, we introduce a Bayesian approach to association analysis by weighting the likelihood of each statistical test to reflect the number of putative causal alleles to which it is correlated.

PMID: 16715096 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]