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Candidate-gene association studies with pedigree data: controlling for environmental covariates.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 May 2003
Slager S L, Schaid D J, Wang L, Thibodeau S N
Abstract excerpt
Case-control studies provide an important epidemiological tool to evaluate candidate genes. There are many different study designs available. We focus on a more recently proposed design, which we call a multiplex case-control (MCC) design. This design compares allele frequencies between related cases, each of whom are sampled from multiplex families, and unrelated controls. Since within-family genotype...
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