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Inference of haplotype effects in case-control studies using unphased genotype and environmental data
Authors:Chen Xiaowu  Li Zhaohai
Institution:Department of Biostatistics, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., 14200 Shady Grove Rd. Rockville, MD, USA.
Abstract:A retrospective likelihood-based approach was proposed to test and estimate the effect of haplotype on disease risk using unphased genotype data with adjustment for environmental covariates. The proposed method was also extended to handle the data in which the haplotype and environmental covariates are not independent. Likelihood ratio tests were constructed to test the effects of haplotype and gene-environment interaction. The model parameters such as haplotype effect size was estimated using an Expectation Conditional-Maximization (ECM) algorithm developed by Meng and Rubin (1993). Model-based variance estimates were derived using the observed information matrix. Simulation studies were conducted for three different genetic effect models, including dominant effect, recessive effect, and additive effect. The results showed that the proposed method generated unbiased parameter estimates, proper type I error, and true beta coverage probabilities. The model performed well with small or large sample sizes, as well as short or long haplotypes.
Keywords:Haplotype  Case‐control  ECM  Environmental covariate
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