Genetic association studies: Marking them well

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 194, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1475-1477

  Orr, Nick ^a   Bekker, Vincent ^a   Chanock, Stephen ^a,b  

^a Center for Cancer Research   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 33845210353     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508552     Document Type: Editorial

References (19)

1. Risch NJ. Searching for genetic determinants in the new millennium. Nature 2000; 405: 847-56.
2. Foster CB, Lehrnbecher T, Mol F, et al. Host defense molecule polymorphisms influence the risk for immune-mediated complications in chronic granulomatous disease. J Clin Invest 1998; 102:2146-55.
3. Fortin A, Stevenson MM, Gros P. Susceptibility to malaria as a complex trait: big pressure from a tiny creature. Hum Mol Genet 2002; 11:2469-78.
4. O'Brien SJ, Nelson GW. Human genes that limit AIDS. Nat Genet 2004; 36:565-74.
5. Altshuler D, Brooks LD, Chakravarti A, Collins FS, Daly MJ, Donnelly P. A haplotype map of the human genome. Nature 2005; 437: 1299-320.
6. Chanock S. Genetic variation and hematology: single-nucleotide polymorphisms, haplotypes, and complex disease. Semin Hematol 2003; 40:321-8.
7. Risch N, Merikangas K. The future of genetic studies of complex human diseases. Science 1996; 273:1516-7.
8. Gabriel SB, Schaffner SF, Nguyen H, et al. The structure of haplotype blocks in the human genome. Science 2002; 296:2225-9.
9. Carlson CS, Eberle MA, Rieder MJ, Yi Q, Kruglyak L, Nickerson DA. Selecting a maximally informative set of single-nucleotide polymorphisms for association analyses using linkage disequilibrium. Am J Hum Genet 2004; 74:106-20.
10. Stram DO. Tag SNP selection for association studies. Genet Epidemiol 2004; 27:365-74.
11. Barrett JC, Cardon LR. Evaluating coverage of genome-wide association studies. Nat Genet 2006; 38:659-62.
12. Wall JD, Pritchard JK. Haplotype blocks and linkage disequilibrium in the human genome. Nat Rev Genet 2003; 4:587-97.
13. Liu N, Sawyer SL, Mukherjee N, et al. Haplotype block structures show significant variation among populations. Genet Epidemiol 2004; 27:385-400.
14. Bonnen PE, Pe'er I, Plenge RM, et al. Evaluating potential for whole-genome studies in Kosrae, an isolated population in Micronesia. Nat Genet 2006; 38:214-7.
15. Mueller JC, Lohmussaar E, Magi R, et al. Linkage disequilibrium patterns and tagSNP transferability among European populations. Am J Hum Genet 2005; 76:387-98.
16. Do H, Vasilescu A, Carpentier W, et al. Exhaustive genotyping of the interleukin-1 family genes and associations with AIDS progression in a French cohort. J Infect Dis 2006; 194:1492-1504 (in this issue).
17. Kruglyak L, Nickerson DA. Variation is the spice of life. Nat Genet 2001; 27:234-6.
18. Ioannidis JP, Rosenberg PS, Goedert JJ, et al. Effects of CCR5-Delta32, CCR2-64I, and SDF-1 3'A alleles on HIV-1 disease progression: an international meta-analysis of individual-patient data. Ann Intern Med 2001; 135:782-95.
19. Thomas DC, Haile RW, Duggan D. Recent developments in genomewide association scans: a workshop summary and review. Am J Hum Genet 2005; 77:337-45.