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Mapping quantitative-trait loci in humans by use of extreme concordant sib pairs: selected sampling by parental phenotypes.
Authors:H. Zhang and N. Risch
Affiliation:Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8034, USA.
Abstract:In two previous articles, we have considered sample sizes required to detect linkage for mapping quantitative-trait loci in humans, using extreme discordant sib pairs. Here, we examine further the use of extreme concordant sib pairs but consider the effect of parents' phenotypes. Sample sizes necessary to obtain a power of 80% with concordant sib pairs at a significance level of .0001 are given, stratified by parental phenotypes. When there is no residual correlation between sibs, the parental phenotypes have little impact on the sample sizes. When residual correlations between sibs exist, we show, however, that power can be considerably reduced by including extreme sib pairs when the parents also have similarly extreme values. Thus, we recommend the exclusion of such pairs from linkage studies. This recommendation reduces the required sample sizes by 3- to 28-fold. The degree of saving in the required sample sizes varies among different models and allele frequencies. The reduction is most dramatic (a 28-fold reduction) for a rare recessive gene.
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