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@article{citeulike:4260735, abstract = {ABSTRACT : Haplotypes are composed of specific combinations of alleles at the several loci on the same chromosome. Because haplotypes incorporate linkage disequilibrium (LD) information from multiple loci, haplotype-based association analyses can provide greater powers than the single-marker analysis in the association studies. However, when we construct haplotypes using many markers simultaneously, we may be confronted with a sparseness problem due to a large number of haplotypes. In this paper, we propose the principal-component (PC) association test as an alternative to the haplotype-based association test. We define the PC scores from the LD blocks and perform the association test using logistic regression. The proposed PC test was applied to the analysis of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 simulated data set. By knowing the answers of Problem 3, we evaluated the performance of the PC test and the haplotype-based association test using Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), power, and type I error. The PC test performed better than the haplotype-based association test in the sense that the former tends to have smaller AIC values and slightly greater power than the latter.}, author = {Oh, S. and Park, T.}, citeulike-article-id = {4260735}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18466473}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18466473}, issn = {1753-6561}, journal = {BMC proceedings}, keywords = {analysis, component, genetic, method, principal, statistical}, posted-at = {2009-04-02 20:34:25}, priority = {2}, title = {Association tests based on the principal-component analysis.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18466473}, volume = {1 Suppl 1}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4260735 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4260735 N2 - ABSTRACT : Haplotypes are composed of specific combinations of alleles at the several loci on the same chromosome. Because haplotypes incorporate linkage disequilibrium (LD) information from multiple loci, haplotype-based association analyses can provide greater powers than the single-marker analysis in the association studies. However, when we construct haplotypes using many markers simultaneously, we may be confronted with a sparseness problem due to a large number of haplotypes. In this paper, we propose the principal-component (PC) association test as an alternative to the haplotype-based association test. We define the PC scores from the LD blocks and perform the association test using logistic regression. The proposed PC test was applied to the analysis of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 simulated data set. By knowing the answers of Problem 3, we evaluated the performance of the PC test and the haplotype-based association test using Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), power, and type I error. The PC test performed better than the haplotype-based association test in the sense that the former tends to have smaller AIC values and slightly greater power than the latter. JF - BMC proceedings SN - 1753-6561 TI - Association tests based on the principal-component analysis. VL - 1 Suppl 1 KW - analysis KW - component KW - genetic KW - method KW - principal KW - statistical AU - Oh, S AU - Park, T PY - 2007/// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18466473 ER -