Skip to main content

Table 2 The relative risk parameters estimable by EMIM

From: PREMIM and EMIM: tools for estimation of maternal, imprinting and interaction effects using multinomial modelling

Parameter

Description

R 1

Child has one minor allele (child genotype effect)

R 2

Child has two minor alleles (child genotype effect)

S 1

Mother has one minor allele (maternal genotype effect)

S 2

Mother has two minor alleles (maternal genotype effect)

γ 11

Mother has one minor allele and child has one minor

 

allele (mother-child interaction effect)

γ 12

Mother has one minor allele and child has two minor

 

alleles (mother-child interaction effect)

γ 21

Mother has two minor alleles and child has one minor

 

allele (mother-child interaction effect)

γ 22

Mother has two minor alleles and child has two minor

 

alleles (mother-child interaction effect)

I m

The child receives a minor allele from the mother

 

(maternally operating imprinting effect)

I p

The child receives a minor allele from the father

 

(paternally operating imprinting effect)