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Statistical properties of affected sib-pair linkage tests.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2003
Wu Chih-Chieh, Amos Christopher I
Abstract excerpt
Genetic linkage analysis is a powerful tool for the identification of disease susceptibility loci. Among the most commonly applied genetic linkage strategies are affected sib-pair tests, but the statistical properties of these tests have not been well characterized. Here, we present a study of the distribution of affected sib-pair tests comparing the type I error rate and the power of the mean test and the...
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