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Undetected genotyping errors cause apparent overtransmission of common alleles in the transmission/disequilibrium test.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2003
Mitchell Adele A, Cutler David J, Chakravarti Aravinda
Abstract excerpt
The transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT), a family-based test of linkage and association, is a popular and intuitive statistical test for studies of complex inheritance, as it is nonparametric and robust to population stratification. We carried out a literature search and located 79 significant TDT-derived associations between a microsatellite marker allele and a disease. Among these, there were 31 (39%) in...
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