Article
Transmission/disequilibrium tests for quantitative traits.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 2001
Zhu X, Elston R C
Abstract excerpt
Spielman et al. [1993] proposed a transmission-disequilibrium test (TDT), based on marker data collected on affected offspring and their parents, to test for linkage between a genetic marker and a binary trait provided there is allelic association. It has been shown that this TDT is powerful and is not affected by allelic association due to population stratification in the absence of linkage. For quantitative...
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