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Empirically derived phenotypic subgroups - qualitative and quantitative trait analyses.
BMC genetics - 31 Dec 2003
Wilcox Marsha A, Wyszynski Diego F, Panhuysen Carolien I, Ma Qianli, Yip Agustin, Farrell John, Farrer Lindsay A
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BACKGROUND: The Framingham Heart Study has contributed a great deal to advances in medicine. Most of the phenotypes investigated have been univariate traits (quantitative or qualitative). The aims of this study are to derive multivariate traits by identifying homogeneous groups of people and assigning both qualitative and quantitative trait scores; to assess the heritability of the derived traits; and to conduct...
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