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Accurate power approximations for χ2-tests in case-control association studies of complex disease genes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2002

M. R. JACKSON ,
E. GENIN ,
M. KNAPP  and
J. L. ESCARY
M. R. JACKSON
Affiliation:
GenOdyssee S. A., Les Ulis
E. GENIN
Affiliation:
Unité de Recherche d'Epidémiologie Génétique, Inserm U535, Kremlin-Bicêtre
M. KNAPP
Affiliation:
Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Bonn
J. L. ESCARY
Affiliation:
GenOdyssee S. A., Les Ulis
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Abstract

A popular method for the analysis of case-control association studies is to compare the frequencies of the alleles between cases and controls by means of Pearson's χ2-statistic. Here, an approach for computing the power of this test is presented, which by computer simulation is shown to be more reliable than a previously published power approximation. Since the test based on Pearson's χ2- statistic can be anti-conservative if there is an excess of homozygotes for the susceptibility allele in the general population, it has been proposed to analyze case-control association studies by means of a trend test based on genotypes instead of alleles. We present an accurate power approximation for the trend test. The power approximations are implemented in an available computer program ‘GenOdyPower’, which in addition has an option to determine the empirical power of these tests by simulations.

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Research Article
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Annals of Human Genetics , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , July 2002 , pp. 307 - 321
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© University College London 2002

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