Presenter: Greta Linse Peterson, Senior Statistician
Date: Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Duration: 52 minutes
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Population structure and inbreeding can confound results from a standard genome-wide association test. Accounting for the random effect of relatedness can lead to lower false discovery rates and identify the causative markers without over-correcting and dampening the true signal.
This presentation will review four different methods of analyzing genotype data while accounting for random effects of relatedness. Methods include PCA analysis with Linear Regression, GBLUP, EMMAX, and MLMM. Comparisons will be made using data from the Sheep HapMap project and a simulated phenotype. After presenting the various methods, we will discuss how these results can be obtained using Golden Helix SNP & Variation Suite (SVS) software and how SVS can be used to compare and contrast the results.
Greta Peterson is Golden Helix's Product Quality Manager/Senior Statistician and as such, Greta wears quite a few hats! Greta provides customer technical support on analysis, detects software bugs, writes python scripts for analysis, and provides customer software training. She is also responsible for software testing, quality control, and maintaining technical documentation. Lastly, Greta provides support to our services department by assisting in analysis projects. Greta joined the GHI family in 2008 when she completed her Masters degree in both Mathematics and Statistics at Montana State University in Bozeman. When Greta is not working, she enjoys spending time with her family and hiking the surrounding areas of Bozeman.