Model-based and model-free multipoint genome-wide linkage analysis of alcoholism
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K B Jacobs1, G C Wedig, A H Schnell
1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Rammelkamp Center for Education and Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44109, USA.
Abstract:
We analyzed a subset of the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) data set as provided by the 11th Genetic Analysis Workshop (GAW11). Linkage analyses were performed using each of the diagnostic criteria for alcoholism included in the data: the COGA criteria (DSM-III-R plus the Feighner criteria) and the narrower World Health Organization diagnosis ICD-10 criteria. Formal segregation analysis using these data was not attempted because only a subset of all the originally ascertained families was made available. Nevertheless, an attempt was made to estimate the best one-locus two-allele genetic model for these data. Model-based multipoint linkage analysis was performed using the results of our trait model fitting, and model-free multipoint linkage analysis was performed with an improved version of the Haseman and Elston linkage method for sib pairs.
