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Simple approximations for the maximal transmission/disequilibrium test with a multi-allelic marker.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Nov 2000
Betensky R A, Rabinowitz D
Abstract excerpt
Spielman et al. (1993) popularized the transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT) to test for linkage between disease and marker loci that show a population association. Several authors have proposed extensions to the TDT for multi-allelic markers. Many of these approaches exhibit a 'swamping' effect in which a marker with a strong effect is not detected by a global test that includes many markers with no effect. To...
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