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Family-based bivariate association tests for quantitative traits.

Lei Zhang¹, Aaron J Bonham, Jian Li

¹Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China.

|December 4, 2009

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We developed a powerful new family-based association test for multiple traits, improving statistical power and correcting for population stratification. This method successfully identified SNPs with pleiotropic effects on HDL and TG levels in genetic data.

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Area of Science:

Genetics
Statistical Genetics
Bioinformatics

Background:

Family-based association tests are crucial for genetic research.
Current methods often analyze single traits, limiting power.
Analyzing correlated traits jointly can enhance statistical power.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a powerful statistical method for bivariate quantitative trait association testing in families.
To address limitations of existing Transmission Disequilibrium Test (TDT)-based methods.
To incorporate population stratification correction into family-based analyses.

Main Methods:

Developed a novel score test statistic within a variance-components model.
Integrated Principal Component Analysis (PCA) with TDT for population stratification correction.
Proposed a method for joint analysis of bivariate quantitative traits.

Main Results:

The proposed method demonstrated superior power compared to single-trait analyses when pleiotropic effects were present.
Outperformed existing bivariate association tests (FBAT-GEE, FBAT-PC) in power while correcting for population stratification.
Successfully identified genome-wide significant SNPs with pleiotropic effects on HDL and TG traits using GAW16 data.

Conclusions:

The new method offers enhanced statistical power for detecting associations with multiple correlated traits in family studies.
Effective correction for population stratification is achieved through the integration of PCA and TDT.
The findings highlight the utility of the proposed method for identifying pleiotropic genetic effects on complex traits like HDL and TG levels.