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The effect of phenotype variation on detection of linkage in the COGA data.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1999
Birznieks G, Ghosh S, Watanabe R M, Mitchell B D
Abstract excerpt
Error in phenotypic measurement can significantly compromise ability to detect linkage. We assessed the impact of introducing phenotypic measurement error on our ability to detect a quantitative trait locus in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) data. The impact of introducing three different types of errors was evaluated: 1) errors generated by sampling from a normal distribution; 2)...
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