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A general test of association for complex diseases with variable age of onset.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 2000
Li H, Fan J
Abstract excerpt
Analysis of age of onset is a key factor in linkage and association studies of some complex genetic traits. Recent methodological developments are mainly concentrated on binary or quantitative traits, in which age of onset information is ignored. We propose a linkage disequilibrium-based Cox model and a robust score test for testing association between a marker and a disease with variable age of onset. The...
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