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- Title
Robust analysis of secondary phenotypes in case-control genetic association studies.
- Authors
Xing, Chuanhua; M. McCarthy, Janice; Dupuis, Josée; Adrienne Cupples, L.; B. Meigs, James; Lin, Xihong; S. Allen, Andrew
- Abstract
The case-control study is a common design for assessing the association between genetic exposures and a disease phenotype. Though association with a given (case-control) phenotype is always of primary interest, there is often considerable interest in assessing relationships between genetic exposures and other (secondary) phenotypes. However, the case-control sample represents a biased sample from the general population. As a result, if this sampling framework is not correctly taken into account, analyses estimating the effect of exposures on secondary phenotypes can be biased leading to incorrect inference. In this paper, we address this problem and propose a general approach for estimating and testing the population effect of a genetic variant on a secondary phenotype. Our approach is based on inverse probability weighted estimating equations, where the weights depend on genotype and the secondary phenotype. We show that, though slightly less efficient than a full likelihood-based analysis when the likelihood is correctly specified, it is substantially more robust to model misspecification, and can out-perform likelihood-based analysis, both in terms of validity and power, when the model is misspecified. We illustrate our approach with an application to a case-control study extracted from the Framingham Heart Study. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
BIOLOGICAL models; GENETIC polymorphisms; GENETIC techniques; PROBABILITY theory; RESEARCH funding; PHENOTYPES; CASE-control method; SEQUENCE analysis
- Publication
Statistics in Medicine, 2016, Vol 35, Issue 23, p4226
- ISSN
0277-6715
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/sim.6976