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Association studies for quantitative traits in structured populations.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 2002
Bacanu Silviu-Alin, Devlin Bernie, Roeder Kathryn
Abstract excerpt
Association between disease and genetic polymorphisms often contributes critical information in our search for the genetic components of common diseases. Devlin and Roeder [1999: Biometrics 55:997-1004] introduced genomic control, a statistical method that overcomes a drawback to the use of population-based samples for tests of association, namely spurious associations induced by population structure. In essence,...
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