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Transmission-ratio distortion and allele sharing in affected sib pairs: a new linkage statistic with reduced bias, with application to chromosome 6q25.3.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Oct 2004
Lemire Mathieu, Roslin Nicole M, Laprise Catherine, Hudson Thomas J, Morgan Kenneth
Abstract excerpt
We studied the effect of transmission-ratio distortion (TRD) on tests of linkage based on allele sharing in affected sib pairs. We developed and implemented a discrete-trait allele-sharing test statistic, Sad, analogous to the Spairs test statistic of Whittemore and Halpern, that evaluates an exc...
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