Optimal Tests For Family-Based Gene-Environment Interaction Using Sequence Kernel Association Test

碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 公共衛生研究所 === 106 === FGESKAT (Family-Based Gene-Environment Interaction Using Sequence Kernel Association Test) is a family-based sequence kernel association test, which tests for the joint effect of gene variants (common and rare) and gene-environment interaction while easily adjus...

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Main Authors: Jing-Wun Chang, 張瀞文
Other Authors: Chao-Yu Guo
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Language:zh-TW
Published: 2018
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/a6w9ww
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spelling ndltd-TW-106YM0050580042019-09-12T03:37:44Z http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/a6w9ww Optimal Tests For Family-Based Gene-Environment Interaction Using Sequence Kernel Association Test 使用序列核關聯檢定偵測家族資料的基因與環境交互作用之最佳檢定 Jing-Wun Chang 張瀞文 碩士 國立陽明大學 公共衛生研究所 106 FGESKAT (Family-Based Gene-Environment Interaction Using Sequence Kernel Association Test) is a family-based sequence kernel association test, which tests for the joint effect of gene variants (common and rare) and gene-environment interaction while easily adjusting for covariates. Such kernel score statistic allows for familial dependencies and adjusts for random confounding effects. However, the adjustment for p-value was too conservative to obtain the justifiable results. Therefore, this thesis derives the optimal test for FGESKAT, calculates p-value using Monte Carlo methods. The new strategy was applied to whole genome sequence data in Genetic Analysis Workshop 18 (GAW18) and discovered concordance and discordant regions comparing to methods without interactions. Optimal test for FGESKAT identified significant results relate to the cardiovascular diseases that can be replicated, including HDAC9 and CACNA2D1. Our results show that the power of optimal test have been highly improved. Chao-Yu Guo Hsin-Chou Yang 郭炤裕 楊欣洲 2018 學位論文 ; thesis 76 zh-TW
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description 碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 公共衛生研究所 === 106 === FGESKAT (Family-Based Gene-Environment Interaction Using Sequence Kernel Association Test) is a family-based sequence kernel association test, which tests for the joint effect of gene variants (common and rare) and gene-environment interaction while easily adjusting for covariates. Such kernel score statistic allows for familial dependencies and adjusts for random confounding effects. However, the adjustment for p-value was too conservative to obtain the justifiable results. Therefore, this thesis derives the optimal test for FGESKAT, calculates p-value using Monte Carlo methods. The new strategy was applied to whole genome sequence data in Genetic Analysis Workshop 18 (GAW18) and discovered concordance and discordant regions comparing to methods without interactions. Optimal test for FGESKAT identified significant results relate to the cardiovascular diseases that can be replicated, including HDAC9 and CACNA2D1. Our results show that the power of optimal test have been highly improved.
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