Associating multiple longitudinal traits with high-dimensional single-nucleotide polymorphism data: application to the Framingham Heart Study

BMC Proc. 2009 Dec 15;3 Suppl 7(Suppl 7):S47. doi: 10.1186/1753-6561-3-s7-s47.

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases are associated with combinations of phenotypic traits, which are in turn caused by a combination of environmental and genetic factors. Because of the diversity of pathways that may lead to cardiovascular diseases, we examined the so-called intermediate phenotypes, which are often repeatedly measured. We developed a penalized nonlinear canonical correlation analysis to associate multiple repeatedly measured traits with high-dimensional single-nucleotide polymorphism data.