Statistical methods in genetics
Giovanni Montana, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, Huxley Building Room 532, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2AZ, UK. Tel, +44 (0) 207-594-8577; E-mail, g.montana{at}imperial.ac.uk
In recent years, a very large variety of statistical methodologies, at various levels of complexity, have been put forward to analyse genotype data and detect genetic variations that may be responsible for increasing the susceptibility to disease. This review provides a concise account of a number of selected statistical methods for population-based association mapping, from single-marker tests of association to multi-marker data mining techniques for genegene interaction detection.
Keywords: association studies, linkage disequilibrium, gene mapping, data mining, epistasis