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Group 6: Pleiotropy and multivariate analysis.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 2003
Kraft Peter, de Andrade Mariza
Abstract excerpt
Analysis techniques using data on several traits simultaneously allow researchers to dissect the genetic architecture affecting correlated traits, and can increase the power to detect pleiotropic genes, i.e., genes that influence two or more traits. Several of the papers in this group from Genetic Analysis Workshop 13 presented promising univariate summaries of multiple traits that detected linkage signals that...
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