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The estimation of sibling genetic risk parameters revisited.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 May 2004
Zou Guohua, Zhao Hongyu
Abstract excerpt
This report points out that some sibling genetic risk parameters can be regarded as the ratios of the characteristic values in the ascertainment subpopulation. Based on this observation, we reconsider Olson and Cordell's ([2000] Genet. Epidemiol. 18:217-235) and Cordell and Olson's ([2000] Genet. Epidemiol. 18:307-321) estimators, and re-derive these estimators. Furthermore, we provide the closed-form variance...
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