An additive genetic gamma frailty model for linkage analysis of diseases with variable age of onset using nuclear families.

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Many late-onset complex diseases exhibit variable age of onset. Efficiently incorporating age of onset information into linkage analysis can potentially increase the power of dissecting complex diseases. In this paper, we treat age of onset as a genetic trait with censored observations. We use multiple markers to infer the inheritance vector at the disease susceptibility (DS) locus in order to extract information...

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