Application of imputation methods to the analysis of rheumatoid arthritis data in genome-wide association studies

Most genetic association studies only genotype a small proportion of cataloged single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in regions of interest. With the catalogs of high-density SNP data available (e.g., HapMap) to researchers today, it has become possible to impute genotypes at untyped SNPs. This in...

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Published in:BMC proceedings 2009-12, Vol.3 Suppl 7 (Suppl 7), p.S24-S24, Article S24
Main Authors: Childers, Douglas K, Kang, Guolian, Liu, Nianjun, Gao, Guimin, Zhang, Kui
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Disease
Genetics
Genomes
Genomics
Genotype & phenotype
Haplotypes
Methods
Pathogenesis
Proceedings
Software packages
Statistical analysis
Studies
Thunnus
Workshops
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Summary:Most genetic association studies only genotype a small proportion of cataloged single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in regions of interest. With the catalogs of high-density SNP data available (e.g., HapMap) to researchers today, it has become possible to impute genotypes at untyped SNPs. This in turn allows us to test those untyped SNPs, the motivation being to increase power in association studies. Several imputation methods and corresponding software packages have been developed for this purpose. The objective of our study is to apply three widely used imputation methods and corresponding software packages to a data from a genome-wide association study of rheumatoid arthritis from the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium in Genetic Analysis Workshop 16, to compare the performances of the three methods, to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, and to identify additional susceptibility loci underlying rheumatoid arthritis. The software packages used in this paper included a program for Bayesian imputation-based association mapping (BIMBAM), a program for imputing unobserved genotypes in case-control association studies (IMPUTE), and a program for testing untyped alleles (TUNA). We found some untyped SNP that showed significant association with rheumatoid arthritis. Among them, a few of these were not located near any typed SNP that was found to be significant and thus may be worth further investigation.
ISSN:1753-6561
1753-6561
DOI:10.1186/1753-6561-3-S7-S24