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Biostatistics (2004), 5, 2, pp. 307-327
Biostatistics Vol. 5 No. 2 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved.

Score tests of genetic association in the presence of linkage based on the additive genetic gamma frailty model

Xiaoyun Zhong and Hongzhe Li{dagger}

Departments of Statistics and Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8500, USA
hli{at}ucdavis.edu

{dagger} To whom correspondence should be addressed: Rowe Program in Human Genetics, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8500, USA

Nuclear families with multiple affected sibs are often collected for genetic linkage analysis of complex diseases. Once linkage evidence is established, dense markers are often typed in the linked region for genetic association analysis based on linkage disequilibrium (LD). Detection of association in the presence of linkage localizes disease genes more accurately than the methods that rely on linkage alone. However, test of association due to LD in the linked region needs to account for dependency of the allele transmissions to different sibs within a family. In this paper, we define a joint model for genetic linkage and association and derive the corresponding joint survival function of age of onset for the sibs within a sibship. The joint survival function is a function of both the inheritance vector and the genotypes at the candidate marker locus. Based on this joint survival function, we derive score tests for genetic association. The proposed methods utilize the phenotype data of all the sibs and have the advantages of family-based designs which can avoid the potential spurious association caused by population admixture. In addition, the methods can account for variable age of onset or age at censoring and possible covariate effects, and therefore provide important tools for modelling disease heterogeneity. Simulation studies and application to the data sets from the 12th Genetic Analysis Workshop indicate that the proposed methods have correct type 1 error rates and increased power over other existing methods for testing allelic association.

Keywords: Age of onset; Frailty model; Inheritance vector; Linkage; Linkage Disequilibrium; Score test; Survival Analysis


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