The confounding effect of cryptic relatedness in epidemiology.

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25860436
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Epidemiology and preventive medicine
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University (2016); Tohoku University (2013-2015)
• Principal Investigator: Shibata Kyoko 金沢大学, 附属病院, 特任准教授 (90535600)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 血縁構造

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We investigated the confounding effect of unadjusted cryptic relatedness among a rural cohort in the relationship between environmental risk factors and quantitative traits interms of sample size, the prevalence, the helitability of liability, the effect size of environmental risk factores. We found a confounding effect of cryptic relatedness in the relationship between quantitative trait and environmnetal risk factors was not negligible.

Free Research Field

遺伝疫学統計学