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Brugger M, Lutz M, Müller-Nurasyid M, Lichtner P, Slater EP, Matthäi E, Bartsch DK, Strauch K. Joint Linkage and Association Analysis Using GENEHUNTER-MODSCORE with an Application to Familial Pancreatic Cancer. Hum Hered 2024; 89:8-31. [PMID: 38198765 DOI: 10.1159/000535840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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INTRODUCTION Joint linkage and association (JLA) analysis combines two disease gene mapping strategies: linkage information contained in families and association information contained in populations. Such a JLA analysis can increase mapping power, especially when the evidence for both linkage and association is low to moderate. Similarly, an association analysis based on haplotypes instead of single markers can increase mapping power when the association pattern is complex. METHODS In this paper, we present an extension to the GENEHUNTER-MODSCORE software package that enables a JLA analysis based on haplotypes and uses information from arbitrary pedigree types and unrelated individuals. Our new JLA method is an extension of the MOD score approach for linkage analysis, which allows the estimation of trait-model and linkage disequilibrium (LD) parameters, i.e., penetrance, disease-allele frequency, and haplotype frequencies. LD is modeled between alleles at a single diallelic disease locus and up to three diallelic test markers. Linkage information is contributed by additional multi-allelic flanking markers. We investigated the statistical properties of our JLA implementation using extensive simulations, and we compared our approach to another commonly used single-marker JLA test. To demonstrate the applicability of our new method in practice, we analyzed pedigree data from the German National Case Collection for Familial Pancreatic Cancer (FaPaCa). RESULTS Based on the simulated data, we demonstrated the validity of our JLA-MOD score analysis implementation and identified scenarios in which haplotype-based tests outperformed the single-marker test. The estimated trait-model and LD parameters were in good accordance with the simulated values. Our method outperformed another commonly used JLA single-marker test when the LD pattern was complex. The exploratory analysis of the FaPaCa families led to the identification of a promising genetic region on chromosome 22q13.33, which can serve as a starting point for future mutation analysis and molecular research in pancreatic cancer. CONCLUSION Our newly proposed JLA-MOD score method proves to be a valuable gene mapping and characterization tool, especially when either linkage or association information alone provide insufficient power to identify the disease-causing genetic variants.
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Affiliation(s)
- Markus Brugger
- Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
- Institute of Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology - IBE, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
- Institute of Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology - IBE, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
- Institute of Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology - IBE, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
- Institute of Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology - IBE, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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Caballero M, Seidman DN, Qiao Y, Sannerud J, Dyer TD, Lehman DM, Curran JE, Duggirala R, Blangero J, Carmi S, Williams AL. Crossover interference and sex-specific genetic maps shape identical by descent sharing in close relatives. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1007979. [PMID: 31860654 PMCID: PMC6944377 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2019] [Revised: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Simulations of close relatives and identical by descent (IBD) segments are common in genetic studies, yet most past efforts have utilized sex averaged genetic maps and ignored crossover interference, thus omitting features known to affect the breakpoints of IBD segments. We developed Ped-sim, a method for simulating relatives that can utilize either sex-specific or sex averaged genetic maps and also either a model of crossover interference or the traditional Poisson model for inter-crossover distances. To characterize the impact of previously ignored mechanisms, we simulated data for all four combinations of these factors. We found that modeling crossover interference decreases the standard deviation of pairwise IBD proportions by 10.4% on average in full siblings through second cousins. By contrast, sex-specific maps increase this standard deviation by 4.2% on average, and also impact the number of segments relatives share. Most notably, using sex-specific maps, the number of segments half-siblings share is bimodal; and when combined with interference modeling, the probability that sixth cousins have non-zero IBD sharing ranges from 9.0 to 13.1%, depending on the sexes of the individuals through which they are related. We present new analytical results for the distributions of IBD segments under these models and show they match results from simulations. Finally, we compared IBD sharing rates between simulated and real relatives and find that the combination of sex-specific maps and interference modeling most accurately captures IBD rates in real data. Ped-sim is open source and available from https://github.com/williamslab/ped-sim.
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- Madison Caballero
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute and Department of Human Genetics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
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- South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute and Department of Human Genetics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America
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- South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute and Department of Human Genetics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America
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- South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute and Department of Human Genetics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America
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- Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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Brugger M, Knapp M, Strauch K. Properties and Evaluation of the MOBIT - a novel Linkage-based Test Statistic and Quantification Method for Imprinting. Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol 2019; 18:sagmb-2018-0025. [PMID: 32996465 DOI: 10.1515/sagmb-2018-0025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Genomic imprinting is a parent-of-origin effect apparent in an appreciable number of human diseases. We have proposed the new imprinting test statistic MOBIT, which is based on MOD score analysis. We were interested in the properties of the MOBIT concerning its distribution under three hypotheses: (1) H0,a: no linkage, no imprinting; (2) H0,b: linkage, no imprinting; (3) H1: linkage and imprinting. More specifically, we assessed the confounding between imprinting and sex-specific recombination frequencies, which presents a major difficulty in linkage-based testing for imprinting, and evaluated the power of the test. To this end, we have performed a linkage simulation study of affected sib-pairs and a three-generation pedigree with two trait models, many two- and multipoint marker scenarios, three genetic map ratios, two sample sizes, and five imprinting degrees. We also investigated the ability of the MOBIT to quantify the degree of imprinting and applied the MOBIT using a real data example on house dust mite allergy. We further proposed and evaluated two approaches to obtain empiric p values for the MOBIT. Our results showed that twopoint analyses assuming a sex-averaged marker map led to an inflated type I error due to confounding, especially for a larger marker-trait locus distance. When the correct sex-specific marker map was assumed, twopoint analyses have a reduced power to detect imprinting, compared to sex-averaged analyses with an appropriate correction for the inflation of the test statistic. However, confounding was not an issue in multipoint analysis unless the map ratio was extreme and marker spacing was sparse. With multipoint analysis, power as well as the ability to quantify the imprinting degree were almost equally high when a sex-averaged or the correct sex-specific map was used in the analysis. We recommend to obtain empiric p values for the MOBIT using genotype simulations based on the best-fitting nonimprinting model of the real dataset analysis. In addition, an implementation of a method based on the permutation of parental sexes is also available. In summary, we propose to perform multipoint analyses using densely spaced markers to efficiently discover new imprinted loci and to reliably quantify the degree of imprinting.
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- Markus Brugger
- Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.,Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, DE-85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, DE-53127 Bonn, Germany
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- Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.,Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, DE-85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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Brugger M, Rospleszcz S, Strauch K. Estimation of Trait-Model Parameters in a MOD Score Linkage Analysis. Hum Hered 2017; 82:103-139. [PMID: 29131067 PMCID: PMC6187844 DOI: 10.1159/000479738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2017] [Accepted: 07/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Background/Aims Theoretically, the trait-model parameters (disease allele frequency and penetrance function) can be estimated without bias in a MOD score linkage analysis. We aimed to practically evaluate the MOD score approach regarding its ability to provide unbiased trait-model parameters for various pedigree-type and trait-model scenarios. We further investigated the ability of the MOD score approach to detect imprinting using affected sib pairs (ASPs) and affected half-sib pairs (AHSPs) when all parental genotypes are missing. Methods Simulated pedigree data were analyzed using the GENEHUNTER-MODSCORE software package. Parameter estimation performance in terms of bias and variability was evaluated with regard to trait-model type and pedigree complexity. Results Generally, parameters were estimated with lower bias and variability with increasing pedigree complexity, especially for recessive and overdominant models. However, dominant and additive models could hardly be distinguished even when using 3-generation pedigrees. Imprinting could clearly be detected for mixtures of mainly ASPs and only few AHSPs with the common parent of the imprinted sex, even though no parental genotypes were available. Conclusion Our results provide guidance to researchers regarding the possibility to estimate trait-model parameters by a MOD score analysis, including the degree of imprinting, with certain types of pedigrees.
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- Markus Brugger
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, and Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany
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Peter B, Matsushita M, Raskind WH. Motor sequencing deficit as an endophenotype of speech sound disorder: a genome-wide linkage analysis in a multigenerational family. Psychiatr Genet 2013; 22:226-34. [PMID: 22517379 DOI: 10.1097/ypg.0b013e328353ae92] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVES The aim of this pilot study was to investigate a measure of motor sequencing deficit as a potential endophenotype of speech sound disorder (SSD) in a multigenerational family with evidence of familial SSD. METHODS In a multigenerational family with evidence of a familial motor-based SSD, affectation status and a measure of motor sequencing during oral motor testing were obtained. To further investigate the role of motor sequencing as an endophenotype for genetic studies, parametric and nonparametric linkage analyses were carried out using a genome-wide panel of 404 microsatellites. RESULTS In seven of the 10 family members with available data, SSD affectation status and motor sequencing status coincided. Linkage analysis revealed four regions of interest, 6p21, 7q32, 7q36, and 8q24, primarily identified with the measure of motor sequencing ability. The 6p21 region overlaps with a locus implicated in rapid alternating naming in a recent genome-wide dyslexia linkage study. The 7q32 locus contains a locus implicated in dyslexia. The 7q36 locus borders on a gene known to affect the component traits of language impairment. CONCLUSION The results are consistent with a motor-based endophenotype of SSD that would be informative for genetic studies. The linkage results in this first genome-wide study in a multigenerational family with SSD warrant follow-up in additional families and with fine mapping or next-generation approaches to gene identification.
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- Beate Peter
- Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
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Sugaya Y. MLEP: an R package for exploring the maximum likelihood estimates of penetrance parameters. BMC Res Notes 2012; 5:465. [PMID: 22929166 PMCID: PMC3537736 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2012] [Accepted: 08/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Background Linkage analysis is a useful tool for detecting genetic variants that regulate a trait of interest, especially genes associated with a given disease. Although penetrance parameters play an important role in determining gene location, they are assigned arbitrary values according to the researcher’s intuition or as estimated by the maximum likelihood principle. Several methods exist by which to evaluate the maximum likelihood estimates of penetrance, although not all of these are supported by software packages and some are biased by marker genotype information, even when disease development is due solely to the genotype of a single allele. Findings Programs for exploring the maximum likelihood estimates of penetrance parameters were developed using the R statistical programming language supplemented by external C functions. The software returns a vector of polynomial coefficients of penetrance parameters, representing the likelihood of pedigree data. From the likelihood polynomial supplied by the proposed method, the likelihood value and its gradient can be precisely computed. To reduce the effect of the supplied dataset on the likelihood function, feasible parameter constraints can be introduced into maximum likelihood estimates, thus enabling flexible exploration of the penetrance estimates. An auxiliary program generates a perspective plot allowing visual validation of the model’s convergence. The functions are collectively available as the MLEP R package. Conclusions Linkage analysis using penetrance parameters estimated by the MLEP package enables feasible localization of a disease locus. This is shown through a simulation study and by demonstrating how the package is used to explore maximum likelihood estimates. Although the input dataset tends to bias the likelihood estimates, the method yields accurate results superior to the analysis using intuitive penetrance values for disease with low allele frequencies. MLEP is part of the Comprehensive R Archive Network and is freely available at
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MLEP/index.html.
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Künzel T, Strauch K. Parameter estimation and quantitative parametric linkage analysis with GENEHUNTER-QMOD. Hum Hered 2012; 73:208-19. [PMID: 22948723 DOI: 10.1159/000339904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2012] [Accepted: 06/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE We present a parametric method for linkage analysis of quantitative phenotypes. The method provides a test for linkage as well as an estimate of different phenotype parameters. We have implemented our new method in the program GENEHUNTER-QMOD and evaluated its properties by performing simulations. METHODS The phenotype is modeled as a normally distributed variable, with a separate distribution for each genotype. Parameter estimates are obtained by maximizing the LOD score over the normal distribution parameters with a gradient-based optimization called PGRAD method. RESULTS The PGRAD method has lower power to detect linkage than the variance components analysis (VCA) in case of a normal distribution and small pedigrees. However, it outperforms the VCA and Haseman-Elston regression for extended pedigrees, nonrandomly ascertained data and non-normally distributed phenotypes. Here, the higher power even goes along with conservativeness, while the VCA has an inflated type I error. Parameter estimation tends to underestimate residual variances but performs better for expectation values of the phenotype distributions. CONCLUSION With GENEHUNTER-QMOD, a powerful new tool is provided to explicitly model quantitative phenotypes in the context of linkage analysis. It is freely available at http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/genepi/downloads.
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- Thomas Künzel
- Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
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Kruse LV, Nyegaard M, Christensen U, Møller-Larsen S, Haagerup A, Deleuran M, Hansen LG, Venø SK, Goossens D, Del-Favero J, Børglum AD. A genome-wide search for linkage to allergic rhinitis in Danish sib-pair families. Eur J Hum Genet 2012; 20:965-72. [PMID: 22419170 PMCID: PMC3421129 DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2012.46] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a complex disorder with a polygenic, multifactorial aetiology. Twin studies have found the genetic contribution to be substantial. We collected and clinically characterised a sample consisting of 127 Danish nuclear families with at least two siblings suffering from AR or allergic conjunctivitis including 540 individuals (286 children and 254 parents). A whole-genome linkage scan, using 424 microsatellite markers, was performed on both this sample and an earlier collected sample consisting of 130 families with atopic dermatitis and other atopic disorders. A third sib-pair family sample, which was previously collected and genotyped, was added to the analysis increasing the total sample size to 357 families consisting of 1508 individuals. In total, 190 families with AR was included. The linkage analysis software Genehunter NPL, Genehunter MOD, and Genehunter Imprinting were used to obtain nonparametric and parametric linkage results. Family-based association analysis of positional candidate SNPs was carried out using the FBAT program. We obtained genome-wide significant linkage to a novel AR locus at 1p13 and suggestive linkage to two novel regions at 1q31-q32 and 20p12, respectively. Family-based association analysis of SNPs in the candidate locus DNND1B/CRB1 at 1q31 showed no significant association and could not explain the linkage signal observed. Suggestive evidence of linkage was also obtained at three AR loci previously reported (2q14-q23, 2q23, and 12p13) and indication of linkage was observed at a number of additional loci. Likely maternal imprinting was observed at 2q23, and possible maternal imprinting at 3q28.
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Slater EP, Langer P, Niemczyk E, Strauch K, Butler J, Habbe N, Neoptolemos JP, Greenhalf W, Bartsch DK. PALB2 mutations in European familial pancreatic cancer families. Clin Genet 2011; 78:490-4. [PMID: 20412113 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2010.01425.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Recently, PALB2 was reported to be a new pancreatic cancer susceptibility gene as determined by exomic sequencing, as truncating PALB2 mutations were identified in 3 of 96 American patients with familial pancreatic cancer (FPC). Representing the European Registry of Hereditary Pancreatitis and Familial Pancreatic Cancer (EUROPAC) and the German National Case Collection for Familial Pancreatic Cancer (FaPaCa), we evaluated whether truncating mutations could also be detected in European FPC families. We have directly sequenced the 13 exons of the PALB2 gene in affected index patients of 81 FPC families. An index patient was defined as the first medically identified patient, stimulating investigation of other members of the family to discover a possible genetic factor. None of these patients carried a BRCA2 mutation. We identified three (3.7%) truncating PALB2 mutations, each producing different stop codons: R414X, 508-9delAG and 3116delA. Interestingly, each of these three families also had a history of breast cancer. Therefore, PALB2 mutations might be causative for FPC in a small subset of European families, especially in those with an additional occurrence of breast cancer.
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- E P Slater
- German National Case Collection of Familial Pancreatic Cancer (FaPaCa), Department of Surgery, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany.
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Greenberg DA, Monti MC, Feenstra B, Zhang J, Hodge SE. The essence of linkage-based imprinting detection: comparing power, type 1 error, and the effects of confounders in two different analysis approaches. Ann Hum Genet 2010; 74:248-62. [PMID: 20374235 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2010.00568.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Imprinting is critical to understanding disease expression. It can be detected using linkage information, but the effects of potential confounders (heterogeneity, sex-specific penetrance, and sex-biased ascertainment) have not been explored. We examine power and confounders in two imprinting detection approaches, and we explore imprinting-linkage interaction. One method (PP) models imprinting by maximising lod scores w.r.t. parent-specific penetrances. The second (DRF) approximates imprinting by maximising lods over differential male-female recombination fractions. We compared power, type 1 error, and confounder effects in these two methods, using computer-simulated data. We varied heterogeneity, penetrance, family and dataset size, and confounders that might mimic imprinting. Without heterogeneity, PP had more imprinting-detecting power than DRF. PP's power increased when parental affectedness status was ignored, but decreased with heterogeneity. With heterogeneity, type 1 error increased dramatically for both methods. However, DRF's power also increased under heterogeneity, more than was attributable to inflated type 1 error. Sex-specific penetrance could increase false positives for PP but not for DRF. False positives did not increase on ascertainment through an affected "mother". For PP, non-penetrant individuals increased information, arguing against using affected-only methods. The high type 1 error levels under some circumstances means these methods must be used cautiously.
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- David A Greenberg
- Division of Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Raskind WH, Matsushita M, Peter B, Biberston J, Wolff J, Lipe H, Burbank R, Bird TD. Familial dyskinesia and facial myokymia (FDFM): Follow-up of a large family and linkage to chromosome 3p21-3q21. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2009; 150B:570-4. [PMID: 18980218 PMCID: PMC3116722 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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We previously reported a five-generation family manifesting an autosomal dominant disorder of facial myokymia and dystonic/choreic movements (FDFM). The dyskinetic episodes are initially paroxysmal but may become constant. With increasing age they may lessen or even disappear. The previous study excluded nine candidate genes chosen for their association with myokymia or chorea and two regions containing single or clustered ion channel genes. We now report identification by whole genome linkage analysis of a broad region on chromosome 3p21-3q21 that segregates with the disease in all 10 affected members in three generations who participated in the study. GENEHUNTER-MODSCORE Version 2.0.1 provided a maximum multipoint LOD score of 3.099. No other disorders primarily characterized by myokymia, dystonia, or chorea are known to map to this region. Identification of additional families with FDFM may narrow the critical region and facilitate the choice of candidate genes for further analysis.
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- Wendy H. Raskind
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA,Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA,Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA,Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA
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- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA,Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA
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Seelow D, Schuelke M, Hildebrandt F, Nürnberg P. HomozygosityMapper--an interactive approach to homozygosity mapping. Nucleic Acids Res 2009; 37:W593-9. [PMID: 19465395 PMCID: PMC2703915 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 305] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Homozygosity mapping is a common method for mapping recessive traits in consanguineous families. In most studies, applications for multipoint linkage analyses are applied to determine the genomic region linked to the disease. Unfortunately, these are neither suited for very large families nor for the inclusion of tens of thousands of SNPs. Even if less than 10,000 markers are employed, such an analysis may easily last hours if not days. Here we present a web-based approach to homozygosity mapping. Our application stores marker data in a database into which users can directly upload their own SNP genotype files. Within a few minutes, the database analyses the data, detects homozygous stretches and provides an intuitive graphical interface to the results. The homozygosity in affected individuals is visualized genome-wide with the ability to zoom into single chromosomes and user-defined chromosomal regions. The software also displays the underlying genotypes in all samples. It is integrated with our candidate gene search engine, GeneDistiller, so that users can interactively determine the most promising gene. They can at any point restrict access to their data or make it public, allowing HomozygosityMapper to be used as a data repository for homozygosity-mapping studies. HomozygosityMapper is available at http://www.homozygositymapper.org/.
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- Dominik Seelow
- Department of Neuropaediatrics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, D-13353 Berlin, Germany.
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Rampersaud E, Mitchell BD, Naj AC, Pollin TI. Investigating parent of origin effects in studies of type 2 diabetes and obesity. Curr Diabetes Rev 2008; 4:329-39. [PMID: 18991601 PMCID: PMC2896493 DOI: 10.2174/157339908786241179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The role of parent-of-origin effects (POE) in the etiology of complex diseases such as type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and obesity is currently of intense interest, but still largely unclear. POE are transmittable genetic effects whereby the expression of the phenotype in the offspring depends upon whether the transmission originated from the mother or father. In mammals, POE can be caused by genetic imprinting, intrauterine effects, or maternally inherited mitochondrial genes. In this paper, we describe the different mechanisms underlying POE, characterize known examples of POE in rare forms of diabetes, and review the evidence from linkage and association studies for POE in T2DM and obesity. Finally, we summarize some of the new and established statistical and experimental approaches commonly used to detect POE. Through this paper, we hope emphasizes the potentially significant importance of POE in the etiology of T2DM and obesity.
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- Evadnie Rampersaud
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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The human pseudoautosomal regions: a review for genetic epidemiologists. Eur J Hum Genet 2008; 16:771-9. [PMID: 18398439 DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2008.63] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Beleza-Meireles A, Kockum I, Yuan QP, Picelli S, Wetterberg L, Gustavson KH, Schalling M. Complex aetiology of an apparently Mendelian form of mental retardation. BMC MEDICAL GENETICS 2008; 9:6. [PMID: 18254962 PMCID: PMC2259315 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2350-9-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2007] [Accepted: 02/06/2008] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Background Mental Retardation is a common heterogeneous neurodevelopment condition, which causes are still largely elusive. It has been suggested that half of the phenotypic variation of intelligence is explained by genetic variation. And genetic or inherited factors indeed account for most of the cases of mental retardation with an identifiable cause. However, only a few autosomal genes have been mapped and identified to date. In this report, the genetic causes for an apparently recessive form of mental retardation, in a large nordern swedish pedigree, are investigated. Methods After extensive evaluation of the patients, which ruled out recognizable patterns of malformation and excluded known causes of MR, a comprehensive genome-wide linkage analysis, with 500 microsatellite markers, was performed in 24 members of this family. Additionally, a genome-wide copy number analysis, using an affimetrix 250 K SNP chip, was performed in this pedigree. Results No significant LOD score was found with either parametric and non-parametric linkage analysis. The highest scores are located at chromosomes 13, 15 and 17. Genome-wide copy number analysis identified no clear cause for the disorder; but rather, several variants were present in the family members, irrespective of their affected status. Conclusion These results suggest that mental retardation in this family, unlikely what was expected, has a heterogeneous aetiology; and that several lower effect genes variants might be involved. To demonstrate such effects, our family may be too small. This study also indicates that the ascertainment of the cause of MR may be challenging, and that a complex aetiology may be present even within a pedigree, constituting an additional obstacle for genetic counselling. Variants in genes involved in molecular mechanisms of cellular plasticity, in genes involved in the development of underlying neural architectures, and in genes involved in neurodevelopment and in the ongoing function of terminally differentiated neurons may underlie the phenotypic variation of intelligence and explain instances of intellectual impairment.
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- Ana Beleza-Meireles
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Mattheisen M, Dietter J, Knapp M, Baur MP, Strauch K. Inferential testing for linkage with GENEHUNTER-MODSCORE: The impact of the pedigree structure on the null distribution of multipoint MOD scores. Genet Epidemiol 2008; 32:73-83. [PMID: 17849490 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The asymptotic distribution of [MOD] scores under the null hypothesis of no linkage is only known for affected sib pairs and other types of affected relative pairs. We have extended the GENEHUNTER-MODSCORE program to allow for simulations under the null hypothesis of no linkage to determine the empirical significance of MOD-score results in general situations. We performed simulations with families of different size (one million replicates of 500 families per simulation setting) to thoroughly investigate the impact of the pedigree size on the null distribution of multipoint MOD scores. It is shown that the distribution is dependent on the size and structure of the pedigrees under study. By performing simulations in the context of MOD-score analysis, our new tool efficiently explores the linkage data in a comprehensive way and also provides a valid method to inferentially test for linkage.
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- Manuel Mattheisen
- Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics, and Epidemiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
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Matise TC, Chen F, Chen W, De La Vega FM, Hansen M, He C, Hyland FCL, Kennedy GC, Kong X, Murray SS, Ziegle JS, Stewart WCL, Buyske S. A second-generation combined linkage physical map of the human genome. Genome Res 2007; 17:1783-6. [PMID: 17989245 DOI: 10.1101/gr.7156307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 269] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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We have completed a second-generation linkage map that incorporates sequence-based positional information. This new map, the Rutgers Map v.2, includes 28,121 polymorphic markers with physical positions corroborated by recombination-based data. Sex-averaged and sex-specific linkage map distances, along with confidence intervals, have been estimated for all map intervals. In addition, a regression-based smoothed map is provided that facilitates interpolation of positions of unmapped markers on this map. With nearly twice as many markers as our first-generation map, the Rutgers Map continues to be a unique and comprehensive resource for obtaining genetic map information for large sets of polymorphic markers.
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- Tara C Matise
- Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
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Grünhage F, Acalovschi M, Tirziu S, Walier M, Wienker TF, Ciocan A, Mosteanu O, Sauerbruch T, Lammert F. Increased gallstone risk in humans conferred by common variant of hepatic ATP-binding cassette transporter for cholesterol. Hepatology 2007; 46:793-801. [PMID: 17626266 DOI: 10.1002/hep.21847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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UNLABELLED Genomewide scans of inbred strains of mice have linked the genes encoding the hepatocanalicular cholesterol transporter ABCG5/G8 to gallstone formation. Five nonsynonymous coding single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the orthologous human genes are associated with differences in serum cholesterol and plant sterol levels. We now tested these ABCG5/G8 SNPs for linkage and association with gallstone susceptibility in humans. Prospectively, we collected data from 178 white individuals with gallbladder stones or history of cholecystectomy in 84 families and from 70 stone-free controls, as confirmed by abdominal ultrasound. We performed nonparametric linkage (NPL) analysis of affected sib pairs (ASPs) and association tests of cases and controls. In ASPs, gallstones were strongly linked to the D19H variant of the ABCG8 gene (NPL score = 7.1; P = 4.6 x 10(-13)). The risk of gallstones in carriers of the 19H allele was significantly increased in randomly selected cases from the ASP cohort compared to the stone-free controls (OR = 3.018; P = 0.017). Consistent with the mouse model, heterozygosity for the lithogenic ABCG8 allele was associated with gallstones in humans; 21.4% of gallstone patients carried the heterozygous D19H genotype, compared with 8.6% of controls (OR = 2.954; P = 0.026). CONCLUSION The linkage and association studies identified the cholesterol transporter ABCG5/G8 as a genetic determinant of gallstone formation, or LITH gene, in humans. The function of this transporter and the results of the genetic study taken together indicate that in gallstone-susceptible carriers of the ABCG8 19H allele, cholesterol cholelithiasis is secondary to increased hepatobiliary cholesterol secretion.
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- Frank Grünhage
- Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Bonn, Bonner Forum Biomedizin, Germany
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Jenkins D, Seelow D, Jehee FS, Perlyn CA, Alonso LG, Bueno DF, Donnai D, Josifova D, Josifiova D, Mathijssen IMJ, Morton JEV, Orstavik KH, Sweeney E, Wall SA, Marsh JL, Nurnberg P, Passos-Bueno MR, Wilkie AOM. RAB23 mutations in Carpenter syndrome imply an unexpected role for hedgehog signaling in cranial-suture development and obesity. Am J Hum Genet 2007; 80:1162-70. [PMID: 17503333 PMCID: PMC1867103 DOI: 10.1086/518047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 214] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2007] [Accepted: 03/08/2007] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Carpenter syndrome is a pleiotropic disorder with autosomal recessive inheritance, the cardinal features of which include craniosynostosis, polysyndactyly, obesity, and cardiac defects. Using homozygosity mapping, we found linkage to chromosome 6p12.1-q12 and, in 15 independent families, identified five different mutations (four truncating and one missense) in RAB23, which encodes a member of the RAB guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) family of vesicle transport proteins and acts as a negative regulator of hedgehog (HH) signaling. In 10 patients, the disease was caused by homozygosity for the same nonsense mutation, L145X, that resides on a common haplotype, indicative of a founder effect in patients of northern European descent. Surprisingly, nonsense mutations of Rab23 in open brain mice cause recessive embryonic lethality with neural-tube defects, suggesting a species difference in the requirement for RAB23 during early development. The discovery of RAB23 mutations in patients with Carpenter syndrome implicates HH signaling in cranial-suture biogenesis--an unexpected finding, given that craniosynostosis is not usually associated with mutations of other HH-pathway components--and provides a new molecular target for studies of obesity.
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- Dagan Jenkins
- Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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Strauch K. MOD-Score Analysis with Simple Pedigrees: An Overview of Likelihood-Based Linkage Methods. Hum Hered 2007; 64:192-202. [PMID: 17536213 DOI: 10.1159/000102992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2006] [Accepted: 03/12/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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A MOD-score analysis, in which the parametric LOD score is maximized with respect to the trait-model parameters, can be a powerful method for the mapping of complex traits. With affected sib pairs, it has been shown before that MOD scores asymptotically follow a mixture of chi(2) distributions with 2, 1 and 0 degrees of freedom under the null hypothesis of no linkage. In that context, a MOD-score analysis yields some (albeit limited) information regarding the trait-model parameters, and there is a chance for an increased power compared to a simple LOD-score analysis. Here, it is shown that with unilineal affected relative pairs, MOD scores asymptotically follow a mixture of chi(2) distributions with 1 and 0 degrees of freedom under the null hypothesis, that is, the same distribution as followed by simple LOD scores. No information regarding the trait model can be obtained in this setting, and no power is gained when compared to a LOD-score analysis. An outlook to larger pedigrees is given. The number of degrees of freedom underlying the null distribution of MOD scores, that depends on the type of pedigrees studied, corresponds to the number of explored dimensions related to power and to the number of parameters that can jointly be estimated.
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- Konstantin Strauch
- Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
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