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Evaluation of offspring and maternal genetic effects on disease risk using a family-based approach: the "pent" design.
American journal of epidemiology - 1 Oct 2005
Mitchell Laura E, Weinberg Clarice R
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Diseases that develop during gestation may be influenced by the genotype of the mother and the inherited genotype of the embryo/fetus. However, given the correlation between maternal and offspring genotypes, differentiating between inherited and maternal genetic effects is not straightforward. The two-step transmission disequilibrium test was the first, family-based test proposed for the purpose of...
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