Article
Effects of age at onset on the power of the affected sib pair and transmission/disequilibrium tests.
Annals of human genetics - 1 May 2000
Li H, Hsu L
Abstract excerpt
Information on the age of a patient at disease onset, an important feature of complex diseases, is often collected in studies designed to map the disease genes. Penetrance-model-free methods, requiring no specification of penetrance functions, have been used extensively for detecting linkage and association between marker and disease loci. In this paper, we conduct an analytical study to examine the effects of...
Topics
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Female
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Testing
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Male
- Middle Aged
