| Ruderfer, Douglas M, Korn, Joshua and Purcell, Shaun M 2010. Family-based genetic risk prediction of multifactorial disease. Genome Medicine 2 (1) , p. 2. 10.1186/gm123 |
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies have detected dozens of variants underlying complex diseases, although it is uncertain how often these discoveries will translate into clinically useful predictors. Here, to improve genetic risk prediction, we consider including phenotypic and genotypic information from related individuals. We develop and evaluate a family-based liability-threshold prediction model and apply it to a simulation of known Crohn's disease risk variants. We show that genotypes of a relative of known phenotype can be informative for an individual's disease risk, over and above the same locus genotyped in the individual. This approach can lead to better-calibrated estimates of disease risk, although the overall benefit for prediction is typically only very modest.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Medicine |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Publisher: | BioMed Central |
| ISSN: | 1756-994X |
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2015 13:34 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/81274 |
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