We propose a new method for genome-wide association analysis with a family-based design. The proposed method is robust against population substructure while it is more efficient than the traditional method such as tra...
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We propose a new method for genome-wide association analysis with a family-based design. The proposed method is robust against population substructure while it is more efficient than the traditional method such as transmission disequilibrium test for related samples. The proposed method estimates the correlation matrix between individuals and then the principal component analysis is applied. To maximize the statistical power, we consider the additive polygenic model and a best linear unbiased predictor is used as offset. We confirmed that the proposed method is always efficient by simulation studies. The method will be applied to Framingham Heart study.
Bid shading is a common strategy in online auctions to avoid the "winner's curse". While almost all bidders shade their bids, at least to some degree, it is impossible to infer the degree and volume of s...
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As part of an educational ethnography of a queer cultural center at a western United States university, I explored the center's cultural importance on the college campus and in its surrounding community. During th...
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We consider the problem of reconstructing a maximally parsimonious history of network evolution under models that support gene duplication and loss and independent interaction gain and loss. We introduce a combinatori...
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The emergence of low-cost sensing architectures for diverse modalities has made it possible to deploy sensor networks that acquire large amounts of very high-dimensional data. To cope with such a data deluge, manifold...
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The Gini-Simpson quadratic index is a classic measure of diversity, widely used by ecologists. As shown recently, however, this index is not suitable for the measurement of beta diversity when the number of species is...
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The Gini-Simpson quadratic index is a classic measure of diversity, widely used by ecologists. As shown recently, however, this index is not suitable for the measurement of beta diversity when the number of species is very large. The objective of this paper is to introduce the Rich- Gini-Simpson quadratic index which preserves all the qualities of the classic Gini-Simpson index but behaves very well even when the number of species is very large. The additive partitioning of species diversity using the Rich-Gini- Simpson quadratic index and an application from island biogeography are analyzed.
Most common complex traits such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and cancers are known to be associated with multiple genes, environmental factors, and epistasis. Recently, the development of advanced genotyping te...
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Most common complex traits such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and cancers are known to be associated with multiple genes, environmental factors, and epistasis. Recently, the development of advanced genotyping technologies allows us to perform the genome-wide association studies (GWAS). For detecting the effects of multiple genes on complex traits, many approaches have been proposed for GWAS. Multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) proposed by Ritchie et al. (2001) is one of the powerful methods for detecting epistasis, which detects high order interactions among genes. However, MDR is computationally intensive due to its requirement of testing all possible n-way combinations. Thus, it is not practically feasible to apply MDR directly to analyzing large-scale GWAS data. We propose an efficient strategy to perform MDR analysis for GWAS data. First, select a subset of genetic factors such as SNPs with some marginal significance. Second, perform MDR analysis only for the selected genetic factors. Third, provide MDR summary results through network graph. Even for the MDR analysis for the selected SNPs, a fast computing system is required. We developed our own GPU based system for the large-scale GWAS data. We applied our strategy to Korean Association REsource (KARE) (8,838 individuals with 101,837 SNPs) for detecting two-way interactions of genetic factors associated with body mass index (BMI). We identified several genes and pathways which have been known to be associated with obesity.
Through a mini-educational ethnography of a queer cultural center at a midsized, Western U.S. university, I explored the center's cultural importance on the college campus and in its surrounding community. During ...
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