PubMed · 7327717
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V Puri, N K Anand. 1981. Osteogenesis imperfecta.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7327717/
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Heterozygous individuals carrying a "paradominant" mutation, as a rule, are phenotypically normal. Therefore, the mutation can be transmitted unperceived through many generations. The trait becomes manifest when a somatic mutation occurs during embryogenesis giving rise to loss of heterozygosity and forming a mutant cell population, being either homozygous or hemizygous for the mutation. This concept explains the occasional familial occurrence of usually sporadic traits like the Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome and others.
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In genetic analysis of diseases in which the underlying model is unknown, "model free" methods-such as affected sib pair (ASP) tests-are often preferred over LOD-score methods, although LOD-score methods under the correct or even approximately correct model are more powerful than ASP tests. However, there might be circumstances in which nonparametric methods will outperform LOD-score methods. Recently, Dizier et al. reported that, in some complex two-locus (2L) models, LOD-score methods with segregation analysis-derived parameters had less power to detect linkage than ASP tests. We investigated whether these particular models, in fact, represent a situation that ASP tests are more powerful than LOD scores. We simulated data according to the parameters specified by Dizier et al. and analyzed the data by using a (a) single locus (SL) LOD-score analysis performed twice, under a simple dominant and a recessive mode of inheritance (MOI), (b) ASP methods, and (c) nonparametric linkage (NPL) analysis. We show that SL analysis performed twice and corrected for the type I-error increase due to multiple testing yields almost as much linkage information as does an analysis under the correct 2L model and is more powerful than either the ASP method or the NPL method. We demonstrate that, even for complex genetic models, the most important condition for linkage analysis is that the assumed MOI at the disease locus being tested is approximately correct, not that the inheritance of the disease per se is correctly specified. In the analysis by Dizier et al., segregation analysis led to estimates of dominance parameters that were grossly misspecified for the locus tested in those models in which ASP tests appeared to be more powerful than LOD-score analyses.