Family-based association studies.

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Over the past decade, attention has turned from positional cloning of Mendelian disease genes to the dissection of complex diseases. Both theoretical and empirical studies have shown that traditional linkage studies may be inferior in power compared to studies that directly utilize allele status. Case-control association studies, as an alternative, are subject to bias due to population stratification. As a...

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