Likelihood-based procedures for obtaining confidence intervals of disease Loci with general pedigree data
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu11648155912021-08-03T05:51:49Z Likelihood-based procedures for obtaining confidence intervals of disease Loci with general pedigree data Wan, Shuyan Statistics LOD Importance Sampling Linkage Analysis CSI Mapping of complex traits has become the main challenge in the field of linkage analysis. To localize a disease gene in a whole-genome study, the traditional testing of linkage signals turns out to be lack of accurate assessment of statistical significance. In this dissertation, we propose to test every position on the chromosome for its possibility of being a disease locus and construct a confidence set for the disease locus by including those positions that are not rejected. Three test statistics are proposed to perform the test, including a LOD and two generalized likelihood ratio test statistics with or without model averaging (GLRT/MA and GLRT). Based on different test statistics, several approaches are developed to estimate the null distribution. Specifically, based on LOD, an integrated procedure is formed by an adaptive procedure and an importance sampling procedure. Asymptotic approaches based on GLRT and GLRT/MA are also proposed as alternatives that are much more efficient computationally but rely on the validity of the limiting distribution of approximation. An importance sampling procedure is also developed based on GLRT (GLRT/IS). Simulation studies show that the integrated procedure tends to give longer confidence intervals with right coverage probability. Both the GLRT asymptotic and the GLRT/IS approaches give actual coverage probability around the nominal one when there are moderate to strong linkage signals. When the signals are weak, the GLRT asymptotic approach tends to undercover the disease locus while the GLRT/IS has the correct coverage. Compared with the 1-LOD support interval, all our methods capture the disease loci to confidence intervals with closer to nominal coverage probability when there are weak to moderate linkage signals. However, when there is strong linkage information, the performance of the 1-LOD method is as good as that of the GLRT/IS. Finally, we apply all the methods to three sets of rheumatoid arthritis data to obtain confidence intervals of the putative disease loci. Both asymptotic methods and the integrated procedure recover the well recognized susceptibility locus, HLA*DRB1, to 99% confidence intervals of around 5-20 cM in length while the 3-LOD method either misses it or gets a longer confidence set. 2006-11-30 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1164815591 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1164815591 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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Likelihood-based procedures for obtaining confidence intervals of disease Loci with general pedigree data |
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Likelihood-based procedures for obtaining confidence intervals of disease Loci with general pedigree data |
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