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Dr. Fann, Cathy S.-J.

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Specialty:
  • Genetic Statistics
  • Genetic Epidemiology

Education and Positions:
  • Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health,
    Ph.D. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, US


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Using propensity score adjustment method in genetic association studies.

Dr. Fann, Cathy S.-J.
Comput Biol Chem., Jun 01, 2016

The statistical tests for single locus disease association are mostly under-powered. If a disease associated causal single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) operates essentially through a complex mechanism that involves multiple SNPs or possible environmental factors, its effect might be missed if the causal SNP is studied in isolation without accounting for these unknown genetic influences. In this study, we attempt to address the issue of reduced power that is inherent in single point association studies by accounting for genetic influences that negatively impact the detection of causal variant in single point association analysis. In our method we use propensity score (PS) to adjust for the effect of SNPs that influence the marginal association of a candidate marker. These SNPs might be in linkage disequilibrium (LD) and/or epistatic with the target-SNP and have a joint interactive influence on the disease under study. We therefore propose a propensity score adjustment method (PSAM) as a tool for dimension reduction to improve the power for single locus studies through an estimated PS to adjust for influence from these SNPs while regressing disease status on the target-genetic locus. The degree of freedom of such a test is therefore always restricted to 1.