Eylem Seç
Experimental Design & Analysis with Multiparental Populations
Başlık:
Experimental Design & Analysis with Multiparental Populations
Yazar:
Keele, Gregory R., author.
ISBN:
9780438062887
Yazar Ek Girişi:
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 electronic resource (225 pages)
Genel Not:
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: B.
Advisors: William Valdar Committee members: Samir NP Kelada; Michael I. Love; Leonard McMillan; Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena; Daniel Pomp.
Özet:
Multiparental populations (MPP) are experimental populations descended from more than two founder or parental inbred strains. They generally possess far greater genetic variation and phenotypic variability than simpler bi-parental populations, and are thus powerful resources for genetic studies,. MPP have been developed in numerous model systems, and have been successfully utilized in genetic association or quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping studies for identifying candidate genes and variants that modulate complex phenotypes. Statistical methods developed for simpler populations have been extended successfully for analyses of MPP, though problems can arise, such as dubious QTL that occur at positions with imbalanced founder haplotype contributions. This shortcoming reflects the potential value of statistical tools designed specifically for MPP that can better leverage the abundant genetic and phenotypic variation for design and analyses of powerful experiments.
This dissertation has two main topics: 1) experimental design and 2) genetic association and related analyses in MPP. Within the topic of experimental design, the use of the diallel, a specific form of MPP, to inform selection of powerful follow-up bi-parental crosses for QTL mapping is explored. More broadly, this approach represents a Bayesian decision theoretic approach and is found to provide a quantitative, principled procedure for leveraging information in the pilot data towards follow-up experiments. The second design subject is a power calculation tool for the Collaborative Cross (CC), a panel of recombinant inbred strains of mice, providing highly tailored power estimates for the design of mapping studies in the realized CC strains. Additionally, the tool is used to investigate how various aspects of experimental design and features of the underlying QTL affect the power to map QTL broadly.
The first subject for the topic of genetic association is a multiple imputation approach to QTL mapping in MPP that is shown to reduce false QTL that result from founder haplotype uncertainty and imbalanced founder haplotype contributions. Next, an analysis of heterogeneous stock rats, an outbred MPP, is presented, in which imputed SNP association and fine-mapping approaches, including an integrative mediation procedure, are used to identify candidate variants influencing adiposity phenotypes. Finally, QTL mapping is performed on gene expression and chromatin accessibility outcomes in the CC, which largely detect local signals (within 5 Mb upstream or downstream of target outcome). These analyses are followed by a genome-wide integrative mediation approach, that detects local signatures of mediation of gene expression through chromatin accessibility, in a limited sample of CC mice.
Notlar:
School code: 0153
Mevcut:*
Yer Numarası | Demirbaş Numarası | Shelf Location | Lokasyon / Statüsü / İade Tarihi |
---|---|---|---|
XX(679167.1) | 679167-1001 | Proquest E-Tez Koleksiyonu | Arıyor... |
On Order
Liste seç
Bunu varsayılan liste yap.
Öğeler başarıyla eklendi
Öğeler eklenirken hata oldu. Lütfen tekrar deneyiniz.
:
Select An Item
Data usage warning: You will receive one text message for each title you selected.
Standard text messaging rates apply.