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Detection of disease genes by use of family data. II. Application to nuclear families.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Apr 2000
Tu I P, Balise R R, Whittemore A S
Abstract excerpt
Two likelihood-based score statistics are used to detect association between a disease and a single diallelic polymorphism, on the basis of data from arbitrary types of nuclear families. The first statistic, the nonfounder statistic, extends the transmission/disequilibrium test to accommodate affected and unaffected offspring and missing parental genotypes. The second statistic, the founder statistic, compares...
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