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Analysis of longitudinal data from twins.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Dec 2000
Huggins R M, Hoang N H, Loesch D Z
Abstract excerpt
Longitudinal data from twin pairs may be used to determine how the genetic effects influencing a quantitative trait change with age. Here a model for mixed longitudinal data of Huggins and Loesch [1998] on unrelated individuals is extended to twin studies. The model is fitted using robust statistical methods and a bootstrap procedure is proposed to estimate the percentiles. The method is applied to longitudinal...
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