Article
Association in multifactorial traits: how to deal with rare observations?
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2004
Jannot A-S, Essioux L, Clerget-Darpoux F
Abstract excerpt
To detect the role of a candidate gene for a trait in a sample of individuals, we may test SNP haplotype or diplotype effects. For a limited sample size, many haplotype or diplotype categories may contain few individuals. This involves a power decrease when testing the association between the trait and the haplotypes or diplotypes as these categories provide little additional information while increasing the...
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