Marginal screening of 2 × 2 tables in large-scale case-control studies
1Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, 722 W. 168th St, New York, New York 10032, U.S.A.
Abstract:
Assessing the statistical significance of risk factors when screening large numbers of tables that cross-classify disease status with each type of exposure poses a challenging multiple testing problem. The problem is especially acute in large-scale genomic case-control studies. We develop a potentially more powerful and computationally efficient approach (compared with existing methods, including Bonferroni and permutation testing) by taking into account the presence of complex dependencies between the tables. Our approach gains its power by exploiting Monte Carlo simulation from the estimated null distribution of a maximally selected log-odds ratio. We apply the method to case-control data from a study of a large collection of genetic variants related to the risk of early onset stroke.
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