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Table 1 Contributions toward association tests from the GWAS group

From: Methods and results from the genome-wide association group at GAW20

Goal

Reference

Phenotype

Data type

Statistic type

A gene-level association test

Park et al. [6]

Single quantitative trait

Family real GOLDN genetic data

Combined score based test

A haplotype based association test

Zhou et al. [8]

Single binary trait

Case-control and trio GOLDN real genetic data

Bayes factor

A gene-environment interaction test

Gao et al. [7]

Single quantitative or binary trait

GAW20 Case-control simulated genetic data

Score based test

Joint association analysis of single SNPs and DNA methylation markers

Shen et al. [10]

Single quantitative trait

Family real GOLDN genetic and methylation data

Score based test

Jointly analyzing multiple phenotypes

Deng et al. [9]

Multiple quantitative traits

Family real GOLDN genetic data

Pedigree-based USAT (pUSAT)

  1. GOLDN Genetics of Lipid Lowering Drugs and Diet Network, SNP single-nucleotide polymorphism, USAT, unified score-based association test