PSAT
:: DESCRIPTION
PSAT (Population Stratification Association Test) is a software for testing association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and a disease with stratification. Population stratification can be a serious obstacle in the analysis of genome-wide association studies. We have developed a method for evaluating the significance of association scores in whole-genome cohorts with stratification. Our approach is a randomization test akin to a standard permutation test. It conditions on the genotype matrix and thus takes account not only of the population structure but also of the complex linkage disequilibrium structure of the genome. As we show in simulation experiments, our method achieves higher power and significantly better control over false positive rates than existing methods. In addition, it can be easily applied to whole genome association studies.
::DEVELOPER
:: SCREENSHOTS
N/A
::REQUIREMENTS
- Windows with Cygwin /Linux
:: DOWNLOAD
:: MORE INFORMATION
Citation
A randomization test for controlling population stratification in whole-genome association studies
G. Kimmel, M.I. Jordan, E. Halperin, R. Shamir and R.M. Karp RM
American Journal of Human Genetics (2007) , Vol. 81 No. 5, 895-905 (2007)