BACKGROUND/AIMS: Complex traits pose a particular challenge to standard methods for segregation analysis (SA), and for such traits it is difficult to assess the ability of complex SA (CSA) to approximate the true mode of inheritance. Here we use an oligogenic Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method for SA (OSA) to verify results from a single-locus likelihood-based CSA for data on a quantitative measure of reading ability. METHODS: We compared the profile likelihood from CSA, maximized over the trait allele frequency, to the posterior distribution of genotype effects from OSA to explore differences in the overall parameter estimates from SA on the original phenotype data and the same data Winsorized to reduce the potential influence of three outlying data points. RESULTS: Bayesian OSA revealed two modes of inheritance, one of which coincided with the QTL model from CSA. Winsorizing abolished the model originally estimated by CSA; both CSA and OSA identified only the second OSA model. CONCLUSION: Differences between the results from the two methods alerted us to the presence of influential data points, and identified the QTL model best supported by the data. Thus, the Bayesian OSA proved a valuable tool for assessing and verifying inheritance models from CSA. Copyright 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel.
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Complex traits pose a particular challenge to standard methods for segregation analysis (SA), and for such traits it is difficult to assess the ability of complex SA (CSA) to approximate the true mode of inheritance. Here we use an oligogenic Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method for SA (OSA) to verify results from a single-locus likelihood-based CSA for data on a quantitative measure of reading ability. METHODS: We compared the profile likelihood from CSA, maximized over the trait allele frequency, to the posterior distribution of genotype effects from OSA to explore differences in the overall parameter estimates from SA on the original phenotype data and the same data Winsorized to reduce the potential influence of three outlying data points. RESULTS: Bayesian OSA revealed two modes of inheritance, one of which coincided with the QTL model from CSA. Winsorizing abolished the model originally estimated by CSA; both CSA and OSA identified only the second OSA model. CONCLUSION: Differences between the results from the two methods alerted us to the presence of influential data points, and identified the QTL model best supported by the data. Thus, the Bayesian OSA proved a valuable tool for assessing and verifying inheritance models from CSA. Copyright 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel.
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