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Improved inference of relationship for pairs of individuals.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Nov 2000
Epstein M P, Duren W L, Boehnke M
Abstract excerpt
Linkage analyses of genetic diseases and quantitative traits generally are performed using family data. These studies assume the relationships between individuals within families are known correctly. Misclassification of relationships can lead to reduced or inappropriately increased evidence for linkage. Boehnke and Cox (1997) presented a likelihood-based method to infer the most likely relationship of a pair of...
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