Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-21-2013
Publication Title
PloS One
Abstract
We present an extension of the two-class multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) algorithm that enables detection and characterization of epistatic SNP-SNP interactions in the context of a quantitative trait. The proposed Quantitative MDR (QMDR) method handles continuous data by modifying MDR’s constructive induction algorithm to use a T-test. QMDR replaces the balanced accuracy metric with a T-test statistic as the score to determine the best interaction model. We used a simulation to identify the empirical distribution of QMDR’s testing score. We then applied QMDR to genetic data from the ongoing prospective Prevention of Renal and Vascular End-Stage Disease (PREVEND) study.
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0066545
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Gui, Jiang; Moore, Jason H.; Williams, Scott M.; Andrews, Peter; Hillege, Hans L., Hillege, Hans L.; van der Harst, Pim; Navis, Gerjan|; Van Gilst, Wiek H.; Asselbergs, Folkert W.; and Gilbert-Diamond, Diane|, "A Simple and Computationally Efficient Approach to Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction Analysis of Gene-Gene Interactions for Quantitative Traits" (2013). Dartmouth Scholarship. 2513.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2513
