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Evidence to suggest biased phenotypes in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder from completely ascertained trios.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Jan 2002
West A, Langley K, Hamshere M L, Kent L, Craddock N, Owen M J, O'Donovan M, Thapar A
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The transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) is widely used as a robust statistical method to test for genetic association due to linkage based upon analysis of parent-proband trios. The TDT and other family-based tests (eg haplotype relative risk method) are commonly used in association studies including those of ADHD because of concerns that the case-control design has a strong tendency for false positives due to...
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