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New approach to association testing in case-parent designs under informative parental missingness.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Sept 2004
Chen Yi-Hau
Abstract excerpt
The transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT) and related methods using genotype data on diseased probands and their both parents (triads) have been popular for testing linkage or association between a disease and a candidate gene. The usefulness of the TDT-type approaches lies mainly in their robustness, in the sense that they are valid under population stratification, arbitrary parental genotype distribution, and...
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