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Aggregated Quantitative Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction, Rebecca E. Crouch
Aggregated Quantitative Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction, Rebecca E. Crouch
Theses and Dissertations--Statistics
We consider the problem of making predictions for quantitative phenotypes based on gene-to-gene interactions among selected Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs). Previously, Quantitative Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (QMDR) has been applied to detect gene-to-gene interactions associated with elevated quantitative phenotypes, by creating a dichotomous predictor from one interaction which has been deemed optimal. We propose an Aggregated Quantitative Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (AQMDR), which exhaustively considers all k-way interactions among a set of SNPs and replaces the dichotomous predictor from QMDR with a continuous aggregated score. We evaluate this new AQMDR method in a series of simulations for two-way and three-way interactions, …