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1
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What are complex traits?

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Coupling genetic factors along with environmental influences

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What do association studies include?

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transmission disequilibrium testing
case-control association studies

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Characteristics of complex diseases

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incomplete penetrance
phenocopies
high frequency of disease-causing allele

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Relative risk calculation

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λ= frequency in relative of affected person/ population frequency

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What does a higher λ mean?

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The higher the contribution of the genetic component in determining the disease risk

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What does an λ of 15 mean?

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If you have a sibling that is affected, your risk of being affected is 15x higher

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What happens when there is a genetic component involved in disease manifestation?

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The liability distribution among siblings of affected individuals shift to the right, signifying an elevated risk for them to develop the disease

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Affected sib-pairs method

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If the marker locus is linked to trait locus, an excess of shared alleles among affected sib-pairs will be expected

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State what affected sib-pair might share and the probabilities

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may share 0,1,2 alleles identical by descent with probabilities 0.25, 0.5, 0.25 respectively

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What happens if we perform this test for many markers in the genome?

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We can identify those that present a distortion in the expected ratio. If the distortion favours the 1 and 2 shared alleles while lowering the % of 0 shared alleles then there might be a linkage between the marker and risk factor

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Advantages of affected sib-pairs method

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  1. non parametric analysis eliminates the need for specifying allele frequencies or inheritance patterns
  2. provides a precise location of the disease gene
  3. initial insight into the localisation of risk factors on the chromosome
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Disadvantages of affected sib-pairs method

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  • limited power compared to parametric methods
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Linkage disequilibrium

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The non-random association in a population of alleles at closely linked loci: tendency of alleles that are close on the same chromosome to be co-inherited throughout generations

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Why do markers near a risk factor tend to be inherited together?

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Because the same chromosome block is maintained across generations due to limited recombination in chromosomal regions

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Where does recombination frequency take place?

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At specific positions

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How is the genome organised?

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In specific haplotype blocks conserved throughout generations

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What do the red squares show in a linkage disequilibrium map of a chromosome?

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1:1 relationship in terms of linkage disequilibrium

The redder the squares the higher the LOD score

18
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What does maximum linkage disequilibrium mean?

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2 loci are always segregating

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What does it mean when we see a triangle in a linkage disequilibrium map of a chromosome?

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All the loci that are underneath are in linkage disequilibrium

20
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What does the transition from one triangle to the next in a linkage disequilibrium map of a chromosome mean?

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A hotspot for crossing over event

21
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How many SNPs are required for genome wide association studies?

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500,000 non-African SNPs
1,000,000 African SNPs

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Why are more African SNPs required?

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The African genome is heterogenous: it is more ancient and therefore there was more time to create new recombinations and new haplotype blocks

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What is the difference between linkage and association?

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Association is a relation between alleles while linkage is a relation between loci.

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What is case-control study?

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2 populations: one is the case, individuals affected by a specific disease and the other one is control, healthy individuals

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Odds ration

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ad/bc= OR

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What are the best samples for linkage disequilibrium mapping?

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Genetically isolated populations
younger populations

27
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What does a positive associate imply?

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A direct causal effect
Linkage disequilibrium
Population stratifaction

28
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Describe the importance of the ApoL1 gene

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Mutations in this gene causes African Americans to be more susceptible to kidney disease [characterised by the presence of G1 and G2 haplotypes]. However, ApoL1 has been positively selected as it gives resistance to a trypanosoma infection.

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Furosemide

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A sodium transport blocker to reduce the transport of sodium due to uromodulin mutation

30
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Why did Homo sapiens have a selection of keeping the risk variant of uromodulin?

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The pressure that has kept this SNP variant associated with high expression level in nowadays population is selection against UTIs

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What is used to calculate the polygenic risk score PRS?

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Different genome-wide association studies

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What is polygenic risk score?

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If we have a number of loci, each of them with a risk allele, they can be combined using genome-wide polygenic risk scores

33
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What happens if the polygenic risk score is clinically relevant?

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We have a tool that associates a genetic risk for a specific disease that can be calculated for each individual

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Transmission Disequilibrium Test study

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to examine the transmission of a particular allele at a locus from heterozygous parents to their affected offspring: depends on alleles being transmitted in trios

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What should we see if a marker is not close to a risk factor?

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We should see that the transmission to the affected individual should be the same for the alleles of both parents

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What is the aim of the Transmission Disequilibrium Test study?

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To find the frequency of the transmitted allele relative to the non-transmitted allele

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What does it mean if the numbers are comparable to each other in a Transmission Disequilibrium Test study?

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It is probably not a risk factor

38
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What does it mean if the numbers are skewing to each other in a Transmission Disequilibrium Test study?

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The allele more frequently transmitted is a risk factor

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