Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Ancestral recombination graphs under non-random ascertainment, with applications to gene mapping

Hössjer, Ola ; Hartman, Linda LU orcid and Humphreys, Keith (2009) In Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 8(1).
Abstract

Consider a sample of apparently unrelated individuals, for which marker genotype and phenotype data is available. When individuals are sampled on phenotypes, we propose an ascertained ancestral recombination graph (ARG) that models shared ancestry of the sample chromosomes given phenotype data along a region that possibly harbors a disease susceptibility gene. The ascertained ARG is used to define a gene mapping algorithm by means of a lod score and associated p-values based on permutation testing. Under certain modeling simplifications, the lod score and p-values can be computed exactly, without any Monte Carlo approximations, even for unphased chromosome genotype data. Our method handles incomplete penetrance, varying marker allele... (More)

Consider a sample of apparently unrelated individuals, for which marker genotype and phenotype data is available. When individuals are sampled on phenotypes, we propose an ascertained ancestral recombination graph (ARG) that models shared ancestry of the sample chromosomes given phenotype data along a region that possibly harbors a disease susceptibility gene. The ascertained ARG is used to define a gene mapping algorithm by means of a lod score and associated p-values based on permutation testing. Under certain modeling simplifications, the lod score and p-values can be computed exactly, without any Monte Carlo approximations, even for unphased chromosome genotype data. Our method handles incomplete penetrance, varying marker allele frequencies and neutral mutations, and is based on a Hidden Markov algorithm for subsets of disease mutated chromosomes. The performance of the method is investigated in a simulation study and for a real data set from a case-control study of breast cancer.

(Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
; and
publishing date
type
Contribution to journal
publication status
published
subject
keywords
Ancestral recombination graph, Association analysis, Case-control study, Hidden Markov Model, Identical-by-descent, LOD score, Multipoint, Unknown haplotype phase
in
Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology
volume
8
issue
1
article number
35
pages
46 pages
publisher
De Gruyter
external identifiers
  • pmid:19799554
  • scopus:70350460251
ISSN
2194-6302
DOI
10.2202/1544-6115.1380
language
English
LU publication?
no
id
6feea3ae-7024-45b7-8843-bca22cec3c02
date added to LUP
2025-08-22 11:32:58
date last changed
2025-12-19 03:42:38
@article{6feea3ae-7024-45b7-8843-bca22cec3c02,
  abstract     = {{<p>Consider a sample of apparently unrelated individuals, for which marker genotype and phenotype data is available. When individuals are sampled on phenotypes, we propose an ascertained ancestral recombination graph (ARG) that models shared ancestry of the sample chromosomes given phenotype data along a region that possibly harbors a disease susceptibility gene. The ascertained ARG is used to define a gene mapping algorithm by means of a lod score and associated p-values based on permutation testing. Under certain modeling simplifications, the lod score and p-values can be computed exactly, without any Monte Carlo approximations, even for unphased chromosome genotype data. Our method handles incomplete penetrance, varying marker allele frequencies and neutral mutations, and is based on a Hidden Markov algorithm for subsets of disease mutated chromosomes. The performance of the method is investigated in a simulation study and for a real data set from a case-control study of breast cancer.</p>}},
  author       = {{Hössjer, Ola and Hartman, Linda and Humphreys, Keith}},
  issn         = {{2194-6302}},
  keywords     = {{Ancestral recombination graph; Association analysis; Case-control study; Hidden Markov Model; Identical-by-descent; LOD score; Multipoint; Unknown haplotype phase}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1}},
  publisher    = {{De Gruyter}},
  series       = {{Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology}},
  title        = {{Ancestral recombination graphs under non-random ascertainment, with applications to gene mapping}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1544-6115.1380}},
  doi          = {{10.2202/1544-6115.1380}},
  volume       = {{8}},
  year         = {{2009}},
}