Direct genetic effects and their estimation from matched case-control data

Details Direct genetic effects and their estimation from matched case-control data Direct genetic effects and their estimation from matched case-control data

2011-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/1112.5130v1

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20 pages, including two Appendices, two figures, four tables and 41 references

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In genetic association studies, a single marker is often associated with multiple, correlated phenotypes (e.g., obesity and cardiovascular disease, or nicotine dependence and lung cancer). A pervasive question is then whether that marker has independent effects on all phenotypes. In this article, we address this question by assessing whether there is a direct genetic effect on one phenotype that is not mediated through the other phenotypes. In particular, we investigate how to identify and estimate such direct genetic effects on the basis of (matched) case-control data. We discuss conditions under which such effects are identifiable from the available (matched) case-control data. We find that direct genetic effects are sometimes estimable via standard regression methods, and sometimes via a more general G-estimation method, which has previously been proposed for random samples and unmatched case-control studies (Vansteelandt, 2009) and is here extended to matched case-control studies. The results are used to assess whether the FTO gene is associated with myocardial infarction other than via an effect on obesity.

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