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Here, we focus on variants in group 1 and test their association with the disease in a frequentist manner. We judge a variant to belong to group 1 if its posterior probability in group 1 is larger than that in groups 0 and 2. For each individual?j, define a genetic score The parameters of the Bayesian marker selection model include the prior probability?P(I); the hyperparameters?��l?and?��l?for allele frequency distribution; the hyperparameters?��l1,?��l2 for the distribution of discrepancy of allele frequency. The prior probability is a set of probability vectors quantifying our?a priori?belief of each http://www.selleckchem.com/products/PD-0332991.html variant being causal. Incorporating predicted functional impact by specialised algorithms has the ability to improve the power of association test, though it is largely dependent on the accuracy of prediction algorithms. When prior knowledge is not available, we set?pl0=?pl1=?pl2= 1/3. The distribution of rare allele frequency is estimated by analysing the real sequence data produced by the 1000 genomes pilot project (Durbin et al., 2010). We focus on the exon dataset, which has the deepest coverage and the greatest number of sequenced individuals, of the European (CEU+TSI) population. Maximal likelihood estimation on all available data gives the estimate of Beta distribution (��, ��) = (0.309, 2.024) http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Everolimus(RAD001).html (see the Appendix for details). Inference with only rare variants (MAF http://www.selleck.cn/products/Bortezomib.html the intermediate results are stored for later access. For comparison, we have included several existing methods into the analyses. These methods include: Collapsing (Li & Leal, 2008); Weighted-Sum (WS) (Madsen & Browning, 2009); Variable Threshold weighted sum (VT) (Price et al., 2010); Rare Cover (RC) (Bhatia et al., 2010); Kernel-Based Adaptive Cluster (KBAC) (Liu & Leal, 2010); and Replication-based Weighting (RW) (Ionita-Laza et al., 2011). For WS and VT, we invoke the R package?rareVariantTests.R?provided in Price et al.