This article is part of the supplement: Genetic Analysis Workshop 15: Gene Expression Analysis and Approaches to Detecting Multiple Functional Loci
Proceedings
An empirical evaluation of the common disease-common variant hypothesis
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute for Human Genetics, Universityof California, San Francisco, California 94143-0794, USA
BMC Proceedings 2007, 1(Suppl 1):S5 doi:
Published: 18 December 2007Abstract
While genome-wide linkage studies have been successful in mapping variants underlying rare monogenic disorders, genome-wide association studies may be more appropriate for detecting common variants of modest effects that underlie common disorders. To this end, we were interested in determining whether genetic variants associated with a phenotype differed depending on whether they were within or outside of regions linked to the phenotype. In particular, we compared allele frequencies and effect sizes between associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms within and outside of linkage regions using the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 Problem 1. We did not find any statistically significant differences between these two sets. However, our power calculations show that these results may be inconclusive.
