The sub-region that contains PDE4B, LEPROT, DNAJC6, AK3L1 and JAK1 has been associated with backfat thickness in the Duroc pig breed [ 61] and a segment that includes LEPROT, DNAJC6, and AK3L1 was declared to be associated with intramuscular fat content in pigs [ 62].
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If the majority of phenotypes in each subgroup were mapped to the common locus in the genome, that locus was declared to be significantly associated with the subgroup.
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The goal of the 2-D assignment is to find the most likely set of pairs such that each measurement is assigned to one and only one track, or declared not associated, and each track is associated with at most one measurement.
If there are T factors, there will be eLSA pairwise calculations, representing its quadratic growth in T. In order to avoid many falsely declared associated pairs of factors, we need to correct for multiple testing.
Thus, if no locus is genomewide significant, we may conclude that no associations have been found, whereas if some loci are genomewide significant, other approaches can be used to decide which should be declared associated.
To allow for the large number of SNPs being tested (from a few hundred thousand to many millions), a SNP is only declared associated if its P-value is below a stringent significance threshold (typically P < 5 × 10−8).
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The analysis was performed using only the 1,445 genes (out of the initial 6,151) with known disease phenotype as the set of truly disease causing, and with the remaining 4,706 declared as disease associated.
