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  1. In whole-genome association studies, at the first stage, all markers are tested for association and their test statistics or p-values are ranked. At the second stage, some most significant markers are further ana...

    Authors: Gang Zheng, Jungnam Joo, Jing-Ping Lin, Mario Stylianou, Myron A Waclawiw and Nancy L Geller
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S165
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  2. A number of autoimmune and other diseases have well established HLA associations; in many cases there is strong evidence for the direct involvement of the HLA class II peptide-presenting antigens, e.g., HLA DR...

    Authors: Glenys Thomson and Ana Maria Valdes
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S163
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  3. The presence of linkage disequilibrium violates the underlying assumption of linkage equilibrium in most traditional multipoint linkage approaches. Studies have shown that such violation leads to bias in quali...

    Authors: Kelly Cho, Qiong Yang and JosƩe Dupuis
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S161
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  4. Recent studies have shown that linkage disequilibrium (LD) between single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers is widespread. Assuming linkage equilibrium has been shown to cause false positives in linkage st...

    Authors: Cornelis A Albers and Hilbert J Kappen
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S159
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  5. In the fast-developing field of expression quantitative traits loci (eQTL) studies, much interest has been concentrated on detecting genomic regions containing transcriptional regulators that influence multipl...

    Authors: Jie Peng, Pei Wang and Hua Tang
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S157
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  6. To explore the mapping of factors regulating gene expression, we have carried out linkage studies using expression data from individual transcripts (from Affymetrix microarrays; Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 Pr...

    Authors: Jeanette N McClintick, Yunlong Liu and Howard J Edenberg
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S155
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  7. We evaluate the impact of three pre-processing methods for Affymetrix microarray data on expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) mapping, using 14 CEPH Utah families (GAW Problem 1 data). Different sets of ...

    Authors: Aurelie Labbe, Marie-Paule Roth, Pierre-Hugues Carmichael and Maria Martinez
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S153
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  8. The goal of this paper is to investigate the effects of normalization procedures for expression data on linkage results. We selected the two most commonly used expression data extraction and normalization meth...

    Authors: Mariza de Andrade, Elizabeth J Atkinson, Brooke L Fridley, Ellen L Goode, Shannon McDonnell, Wen Liu-Mares, Kari G Rabe, Zhifu Sun and Susan L Slager
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S151
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  9. By applying an association test to analyze the data sets from Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 Problem 3, we compare power using different haplotype-block information. The results from using both of the two differ...

    Authors: Rui Tang, Fei Wang, Qiuying Sha, Shuanglin Zhang and Huann-Sheng Chen
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S149
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  10. A new type of test is presented for genome-wide association studies using a case-control design. It is referred to as the adaptive two-stage (ATS) analysis, being based on both the Hardy-Weinberg disequilibriu...

    Authors: Kijoung Song, Qing Lu, Xiwu Lin, Dawn Waterworth and Robert C Elston
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S147
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  11. Morley et al. (Nature 2004, 430:743ā€“747) detected significant linkages to the expression levels of 142 genes (of 3554) at a reported threshold of genome-wide p = 0.001 (LOD ā‰ˆ 5.3), using 14 three-generation Centr...

    Authors: Jianxin Shi, David O Siegmund and Douglas F Levinson
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S145
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  12. We have developed a graphical display tool called SIMLAPLOT for visualizing different ways in which continuous covariates may influence the genotype-specific risk for complex human diseases. The purpose of our...

    Authors: Xuejun Qin, Silke Schmidt, Eden Martin and Elizabeth R Hauser
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S132
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  13. Measuring the association of haplotype similarities with phenotype similarities has been used to develop statistical tests of genetic association. Previously, we applied the general approach of Mantel statisti...

    Authors: Vivien Marquard, Lars Beckmann, Justo L Bermejo, Christine Fischer and Jenny Chang-Claude
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S128
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  14. The nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-ĪŗB) family of transcription factors regulates the expression of a variety of genes involved in apoptosis and immune response. We examined relationships between genotypes at five N...

    Authors: Wen Liu-Mares, Zhifu Sun, William R Bamlet, Elizabeth J Atkinson, Brooke L Fridley, Susan L Slager, Mariza de Andrade and Ellen L Goode
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S126
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  15. Non-inherited maternal antigens encoded by specific HLA-DRB1 alleles (NIMA) have been implicated as a rheumatoid arthritis (RA) risk factor. Using genotype data from North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium...

    Authors: Hsin-Ju Hsieh, Christina GS Palmer, Sinead Harney, Hsiu-Wen Chen, Lara Bauman, Matthew A Brown and Janet S Sinsheimer
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S124
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  16. Inter-individual variation in gene expression levels can arise as an effect of variation in DNA markers. When associating multiple gene expression variables with multiple DNA marker variables, multivariate tec...

    Authors: Sandra Waaijenborg and Aeilko H Zwinderman
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S122
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  17. We sought to i) identify putative genetic determinants of the severity of rheumatoid arthritis in the NARAC (North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium) data, ii) assess whether known candidate genes for d...

    Authors: Rinku Sutradhar, Dushanthi Pinnaduwage and Shelley B Bull
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S120
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  18. Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex disease that appears to involve multiple genetic and environmental factors. Using the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 simulated rheumatoid arthritis data and the structural equat...

    Authors: Nora L Nock, Emma K Larkin, Nathan J Morris, Yali Li and Catherine M Stein
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S118
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  19. We studied rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium (NARAC) data (1499 subjects; 757 families). Identical methods were applied for studying RA in the Genetic Analysis Wor...

    Authors: Aldi T Kraja, Jon Corbett, An Ping, Rosa S Lin, Petra A Jacobsen, Michael Crosswhite, Ingrid B Borecki and Michael A Province
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S116
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  20. Our aim is to develop methods for identifying a (causal) variant or variants from a dense panel of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are genotyped on the evidence of previous studies. Because a large...

    Authors: Hae-Won Uh, Bart JA Mertens, Henk Jan van der Wijk, Hein Putter, Hans C van Houwelingen and Jeanine J Houwing-Duistermaat
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S114
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  21. Although rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic and inflammatory disease affecting numerous adults, has a complex genetic component involving the human leukocyte antigen region, additional genomic regions most likely...

    Authors: Fredrick R Schumacher and Peter Kraft
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S112
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  22. The CEPH samples are an invaluable resource for mapping genes that contribute to traits that can be measured in cell lines. With the many markers that have already been genotyped for the Centre d'Etude du Poly...

    Authors: E Warwick Daw and Robert Yu
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S108
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  23. Three LOD score statistics are often used for genome-wide linkage analysis: the maximum LOD score, the LOD score statistic proposed by Kong and Cox, both based on the allele-sharing between affected sib pairs,...

    Authors: Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin, Marie-Claude Babron and FranƧoise Clerget-Darpoux
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S102
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  24. We performed multipoint linkage analyses with multiple programs and models for several gene expression traits in the Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain families. All analyses provided consistent results fo...

    Authors: Yun Ju Sung, Yanming Di, Audrey Q Fu, Joseph H Rothstein, Weiva Sieh, Liping Tong, Elizabeth A Thompson and Ellen M Wijsman
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S93
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  25. A new method for constructing confidence intervals for the location of putative genes regulating expression levels (quantitative traits) is proposed. This method is suitable for the "intermediate" fine-mapping...

    Authors: Charalampos Papachristou, Mark Abney and Shili Lin
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S91
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  26. We used the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 Problem 1 data set to search for expression phenotype quantitative trait loci in a highly selected group of genes with a supposedly correlated role in the development o...

    Authors: Francesca Lantieri, Halfdan Rydbeck, Paola Griseri, Isabella Ceccherini and Marcella Devoto
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S89
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  27. Recently, gene expression levels have been shown to demonstrate familial aggregation, suggesting a direct role of heritable DNA variation. We studied the gene expression levels in lymphoblastoid cells of the C...

    Authors: Donghui Kan, Richard Cooper and Xiaofeng Zhu
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S87
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  28. In order to identify regulatory genes, we determined the heritability of gene transcripts, performed linkage analysis to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs), and evaluated the evidence for shared genetic e...

    Authors: Nora Franceschini, Mary K Wojczynski, Harald HH Gƶring, Juan Manuel Peralta, Thomas D Dyer, Xia Li, Hao Li and Kari E North
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S85
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  29. With the availability of high-throughput microarray technologies, investigators can simultaneously measure the expression levels of many thousands of genes in a short period. Although there are rich statistica...

    Authors: Guoqing Diao and DY Lin
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S83
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  30. The goal of this paper is to investigate the effect of using principal components as a data reduction method for expression data in linkage analysis. We used 45 probes normalized using the Affymetrix Global Sc...

    Authors: Elizabeth J Atkinson, Brooke L Fridley, Ellen L Goode, Shannon K McDonnell, Wen Liu-Mares, Kari G Rabe, Zhifu Sun, Susan L Slager and Mariza de Andrade
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S79
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  31. Clinical heterogeneity of a disease may reflect an underlying genetic heterogeneity, which may hinder the detection of trait loci. Consequently, many statistical methods have been developed that allow for the ...

    Authors: HervƩ Perdry, Brion S Maher, Marie-Claude Babron, Toby McHenry, FranƧoise Clerget-Darpoux and Mary L Marazita
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S77
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  32. We incorporate population effects of sex and antibodies directed against cyclic citrullinated peptides (anti-CCP) into the linkage analysis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with microsatellites data provided by th...

    Authors: JƩrƩmie JP Lebrec, Quinta Helmer, Iryna Nishchenko and Hans C van Houwelingen
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S75
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  33. Many genes with major effects on quantitative traits have been reported to interact with other genes. However, finding a group of interacting genes from thousands of SNPs is challenging. Hence, an efficient an...

    Authors: Junghyun Namkung, Jin-Wu Nam and Taesung Park
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S69
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  34. We recently proposed a new strategy: 2-locus TDT for detecting two susceptibility genes through their interaction in trio families. We apply our method to two candidate genes, A and C, on the Genetic Analysis ...

    Authors: Salma Kotti, Mathieu Bourgey and FranƧoise Clerget-Darpoux
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S65
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  35. Modern genetic epidemiology faces the challenge of dealing with hundreds of thousands of genetic markers. The selection of a small initial subset of interesting markers for further investigation can greatly fa...

    Authors: Radoslav Z Nickolov and Valentin B Milanov
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S57
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  36. Using parametric and nonparametric techniques, our study investigated the presence of single locus and pairwise effects between 20 markers of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 (GAW15) North American Rheumatoid ...

    Authors: Beate Glaser, Ivan Nikolov, Daniel Chubb, Marian L Hamshere, Ricardo Segurado, Valentina Moskvina and Peter Holmans
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S54
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  37. About 28% of genes appear to have an expression pattern that follows a mixture distribution. We use first- and second-order partial correlation coefficients to identify trios and quartets of non-sex-linked gen...

    Authors: Yang Yang, Adam P Tashman, Jung Yeon Lee, Seungtai Yoon, Wenyang Mao, Kwangmi Ahn, Wonkuk Kim, Nancy R Mendell, Derek Gordon and Stephen J Finch
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S50
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  38. Extensive studies have been performed to analyze variation in gene expression data by using multistage approaches, including a combination of microarray and linkage analysis. Such a method was recently used in...

    Authors: Alka Malhotra, Helen C Looker and Robert L Hanson
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S48
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  39. Performing linkage and association analyses on a large set of correlated data presents an interesting set of problems. In the current setting, we have 3554 expression levels from lymphoblastoid cell lines in 1...

    Authors: Anthony L Hinrichs, Robert Culverhouse, Carol H Jin and Brian K Suarez
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S46
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  40. A family-based association study design is not only able to localize causative genes more precisely than linkage analysis, but it also helps explain the genetic mechanism underlying the trait under study. Ther...

    Authors: Guan Xing, Chao Xing, Qing Lu and Robert C Elston
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S44
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  41. This study evaluated the utility of unrelated controls and flanking markers when performing joint modeling of linkage and association by the LAMP software (version 0.0.6) [Am J Hum Genet 2005, 76:934ā€“949; Am J Hu...

    Authors: Wan-Yu Lin and Daniel J Schaid
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S40
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  42. There has been a growing interest in developing strategies for identifying single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that explain a linkage signal by joint modeling of linkage and association. We compare several ...

    Authors: Ming-Huei Chen, Jing Cui, Chao-Yu Guo, L Adrienne Cupples, Paul Van Eerdewegh, JosƩe Dupuis and Qiong Yang
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S38
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  43. In a small chromosomal region, a number of polymorphisms may be both linked to and associated with a disease. Potentially directly associated causal loci may be distinguished from indirectly associated loci by...

    Authors: Joanna M Biernacka, Pimphen Charoen and Heather J Cordell
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S36
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  45. We examined the potential gene Ɨ gene interactions and gene Ɨ smoking interactions in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using the candidate gene data sets provided by Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 Problem 2. The multif...

    Authors: Ling Mei, Xiaohui Li, Kai Yang, Jinrui Cui, Belle Fang, Xiuqing Guo and Jerome I Rotter
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S17
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  46. We analyzed a case-control data set for chromosome 18q from the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 to detect susceptibility loci for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A total number of 460 cases and 460 unaffected controls...

    Authors: Tai-Yue Kuo, Winston Lau, Cheng Hu and Weihua Zhang
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S15
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  47. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA, MIM 180300) is a common and complex inflammatory disorder. The North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium (NARAC) data, as part of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 data, consists ...

    Authors: Yuejing Ding, Lei Cong, Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Shaw-Hwa Lo and Tian Zheng
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S13
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  48. Genotype-expression association analysis using linear regression may produce different test results depending on whether founders only or all pedigreed members are used. This difference is not due to the corre...

    Authors: Young Ju Suh, Hye-Soon Lee, Franak Batliwalla and Wentian Li
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S8
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  49. Several methods to identify tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are in common use for genetic epidemiologic studies; however, there may be loss of information when using only a subset of SNPs. We so...

    Authors: Ellen L Goode, Brooke L Fridley, Zhifu Sun, Elizabeth J Atkinson, Alex S Nord, Shannon K McDonnell, Gail P Jarvik, Mariza de Andrade and Susan L Slager
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S6
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  50. Here we describe the data provided for Problem 1 of Genetic Analysis Workshop 15. The data provided for Problem 1 were unusual in two ways. First, the phenotype was the level of gene expression for each gene, ...

    Authors: Vivian G Cheung and Richard S Spielman
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S2
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