Linkage analysis of longitudinal data.

Young Ju Suh; Taesung Park; Soo Yeon Cheong

doi:10.1186/1471-2156-4-s1-s27

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Linkage analysis of longitudinal data.

Young Ju Suh·Taesung Park·Soo Yeon Cheong

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BACKGROUND: We propose a statistical model for linkage analysis of the longitudinal data. The proposed model is a mixed model based on the new Haseman and Elston model and allows several random effects. Specifically, the proposed model includes a random effect for correlation among sib pairs having one sibling in common, and one for the correlation among siblings from the same parents. RESULTS: The proposed model was applied to the analysis of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 13 simulated data set for a quantitative trait of the systolic blood pressure. A simple independence model and two kinds of random effects models yielded good power for detecting linkage for these data sets, while the random effects models performed slightly better than the independence model. Both random effects models showed similar performance. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed models seem not only quite useful in detecting linkage with the longitudinal data for the trait but also quite flexible. They can handle a wide class of correlation structures. Models with a more general class of covariance structure are desirable.

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Young Ju Suh, Taesung Park, Soo Yeon Cheong. 2003-12-31. Linkage analysis of longitudinal data.. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-4-s1-s27

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