Individual-specific liability groups in genetic linkage, with applications to kindreds with Li-Fraumeni syndrome.

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In this report, we present a simple and powerful way to incorporate individual-specific liability classes into linkage analysis. The proposed method is applicable to both quantitative and qualitative traits. In linkage studies, we may have information about different covariates. Incorporation of these covariates along with the estimates of residual familial effects, age-at-onset effects, and susceptibility in the...

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