Longitudinal variance-components analysis of the Framingham Heart Study data |
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Authors: | Macgregor Stuart,Knott Sara A,White Ian,Visscher Peter M Framingham Heart Study |
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Affiliation: | Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Hospital, Cardiff, United Kingdom. smacgreg@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | The Framingham Heart Study offspring cohort, a complex data set with irregularly spaced longitudinal phenotype data, was made available as part of Genetic Analysis Workshop 13. To allow an analysis of all of the data simultaneously, a mixed-model- based random-regression (RR) approach was used. The RR accounted for the variation in genetic effects (including marker-specific quantitative trait locus (QTL) effects) across time by fitting polynomials of age. The use of a mixed model allowed both fixed (such as sex) and random (such as familial environment) effects to be accounted for appropriately. Using this method we performed a QTL analysis of all of the available adult phenotype data (26,106 phenotypic records). In addition to RR, conventional univariate variance component techniques were applied. The traits of interest were BMI, HDLC, total cholesterol, and height. The longitudinal method allowed the characterization of the change in QTL effects with aging. A QTL affecting BMI was shown to act mainly at early ages. |
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