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Hum Hered 2004;57:156-170 (DOI: 10.1159/000079246)

  Key Words

• Tagging SNPs (tSNPs)
• Linkage disequilibrium (LD)
• Statistical power
• Disease association
• Genotype data
• Disease model

  Abstract

Recent studies have indicated that linkage disequilibrium (LD) between single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers can be used to derive a reduced set of tagging SNPs (tSNPs) for genetic association studies. Previous strategies for identifying tSNPs have focused on LD measures or haplotype diversity, but the statistical power to detect disease-associated variants using tSNPs in genetic studies has not been fully characterized. We propose a new approach of selecting tSNPs based on determining the set of SNPs with the highest power to detect association. Two-locus genotype frequencies are used in the power calculations. To show utility, we applied this power method to a large number of SNPs that had been genotyped in Caucasian samples. We demonstrate that a significant reduction in genotyping efforts can be achieved although the reduction depends on genotypic relative risk, inheritance mode and the prevalence of disease in the human population. The tSNP sets identified by our method are remarkably robust to changes in the disease model when small relative risk and additive mode of inheritance are employed. We have also evaluated the ability of the method to detect unidentified SNPs. Our findings have important implications in applying tSNPs from different data sources in association studies.

Copyright © 2004 S. Karger AG, Basel

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  Author Contacts

Xiaolan Hu
1401 Harbor Bay Pkwy
Alameda, CA 94502 (USA)
Tel. +1 510 749 4335, Fax +1 510 749 6200
E-Mail Xiaolan.Hu@celeradiagnostics.com

  Article Information

Received: December 17, 2003
Accepted after revision: April 13, 2004
Number of Print Pages : 15
Number of Figures : 5, Number of Tables : 5, Number of References : 40

  Publication Details

Human Heredity (International Journal of Human and Medical Genetics)
Founded 1950 as Acta Genetica et Statistica Medica by Gunnar Dahlberg; Continued by M. Hauge (1965-1983)

Vol. 57, No. 3, Year 2004 (Cover Date: Released August 2004)

Journal Editor: J. Ott, New York, N.Y.
ISSN: 0001-5652 (print), 1423-0062 (Online)

For additional information: http://www.karger.ch/journals/hhe

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