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- Title
Comparison of Multivariate Tests for Genetic Linkage.
- Authors
Amos, Christopher I.; de Andrade, Mariza; Zhu, Dakai K.
- Abstract
Objectives: Multivariate tests for linkage can provide improved power over univariate tests but the type I error rates and comparative power of commonly used methods have not previously been compared. Here we studied the behavior of bivariate formulations of the variance component (VC) and Haseman-Elston (H-E) approaches. Methods: We compared through simulation studies the bivariate H-E test with the unconstrained bivariate VC approach and with a VC approach in which the major-gene correlation is constrained to ±1. We also compared these methods to univariate methods. Results: Bivariate approaches are more powerful than univariate analyses unless the traits are very highly positively correlated. The power of the bivariate H-E test was less than the VC procedures. The constrained test was often less powerful than the unconstrained test. The empirical distributions of the bivariate H-E test and the unconstrained bivariate VC test conformed with asymptotic distributions for samples of 100 or more sibships of size 4. Conclusions: The unconstrained VC test is valuable for testing for preliminary linkages using multivariate phenotypes. The bivariate H-E test was less powerful than the bivariate VC tests. Copyright © 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Publication
Human Heredity, 2001, Vol 51, Issue 3, p133
- ISSN
0001-5652
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000053334