In the TCGA dataset, 40/44 samples were tightly co-clustered with their partners (i.e. libraries constructed from the same tumor using a different sequencing protocol); the four samples that were not clustered were on a separate branch, but were moderately correlated with their partner samples (correlation > 0.6).
Therefore, our goal is to pick a partner whose correlation with the anchor SNP is not "too high" and not "too low".
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From each simulation replicate the following results were recorded: (i) the anchor-partner SNP correlation using all case/control data; (ii) the AI test statistic; and (iii) the single-SNP logistic regression test statistic at the anchor SNP.
It is not obvious which anchor-partner SNP correlations are most useful.
We thus performed one million computer simulations to calculate, for different haplotype configurations (resulting in different anchor-partner SNP correlations) the resulting AI and single-SNP logistic regression tests.
A map was then constructed to convert the anchor-partner SNP correlations to a score by using the midpoints of the bins and the calculated probabilities to fit a continuous curve, with additional points specified at (0, 0) and (1, 0).
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Weights and head size were also correlated between tandem partners to establish whether larger termites form tandems with a larger partner (Pearson's correlation).
The number of lifetime sexual partners had some correlation with intravenous drug use (r = 0.12, p = 0.009) and intranasal cocaine use (r = 0.13, p = 0.004).
For the global analysis of relationships among all 105 transcriptional repressors and their binding partners, Pearson's correlation coefficient (PCC) was calculated across all ten OSE (normal) samples between all transcriptional repressors and predicted microRNA targets.
