| Empirical power of very rare variants for common traits and disease: results from sanger sequencing 1998 individuals. | |
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PMID: 23321613 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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The optimal study design for identifying rare variants associated with common disease is not yet clear and researchers have to decide whether to prioritize lower sequencing coverage on larger sample sizes, or higher coverage on smaller sample sizes. High-coverage sequencing affords several advantages, such as genotype accuracy and improved identification of very rare variants, but this comes at increased cost. However, the magnitude of the contribution of very rare variants to the statistical power of gene-based association tests is unknown. By using Sanger sequence data on seven genes from 1998 subjects with simulated phenotypes, we provide evidence that excluding very rare variants, in general, reduces the statistical power of rare variant association tests only modestly. However, if the probability of being causal and the effect size of the causal variants are inversely related to the minor allele frequency, then very rare variants do contribute to some power, however the absolute power remains low. As very rare variants constitute the majority of variants identified in sequencing studies, these findings suggest that careful attention need to be placed on the plausible relationship that exist between very rare variants and common disease.European Journal of Human Genetics advance online publication, 16 January 2013; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2012.284. |
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Martin Ladouceur; Hou-Feng Zheng; Celia M T Greenwood; J Brent Richards |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2013-1-16 |
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Title: European journal of human genetics : EJHG Volume: - ISSN: 1476-5438 ISO Abbreviation: Eur. J. Hum. Genet. Publication Date: 2013 Jan |
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Created Date: 2013-1-16 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9302235 Medline TA: Eur J Hum Genet Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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1] Research Center of Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [2] Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
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