A Note on the Asymptotic Properties of Affected-sib-pair Linkage Tests |
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Authors: | K Wang |
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Institution: | Program in Public Health Genetics, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA |
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Abstract: | This article concerns the asymptotic properties of linkage tests for affected‐sib‐pair data under the null hypothesis of no linkage. We consider a popular single‐locus analysis model where the unknown parameters are the disease allele frequency, the three penetrances for the three genotypes at the disease locus, and the recombination fraction between the marker locus and the disease locus. These parameters are completely confounded under the null hypothesis of no linkage. We show that 1) If the total variance of the trait (i.e., the additive variance plus the dominance variance) is “separated” from 0, then the likelihood ratio statistic has an asymptotic 0.5χ20+ 0.5χ21 distribution; 2) If the prevalence of the trait is “separated” from 0 and the recombination fraction is fixed at 0, then the likelihood ratio statistic has an asymptotic distribution which is a mixture of χ20, χ21 and χ22 . The implications of these results are discussed. |
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Keywords: | ASP likelihood ratio test score test mean test |
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