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[Case-parental control study].

Hong-gang Yi·Feng Chen
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OBJECTIVE: To introduce the methodology on the design and statistical method as well as analysis of published data related to case-parental control study. METHODS: Data from a research on association between the human neural tube defects and the T allelic variant TIVS7-2 was analyzed by haplotype relative risk (HRR), genotype relative risk (GRR) and transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT) methods. RESULTS: Using the HRR method, HRR value was 1.33 (chi-square statistic is 1.4618 with P = 0.2266). The results of the GRR method showed that psi(1) value was 1.26 and psi(2) value was 0.98 (chi-square statistic is 3.1809 with 2 df, P = 0.2038). The transmission/disequilibrium test showed that TDT was 1.4516 with P = 0.2283. All results suggested that when a weak association of TIVS7-2 allele with neural tube defects was found, there was no evidence showing the statistical difference. CONCLUSION: The case-parental control design method avoids population stratification when parents used as controls. This method might be used to test the association between genes and disease, as well as to evaluate the gene environmental interaction.

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Hong-gang Yi, Feng Chen. 2004. [Case-parental control study].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15231176/

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