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Tests for the presence of two linked disease susceptibility genes.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Dec 2005
Biernacka Joanna M, Sun Lei, Bull Shelley B
Abstract excerpt
For diseases with complex genetic etiology, more than one susceptibility gene may exist in a single chromosomal region. Under explicit assumptions about the number of disease genes in a region, generalized estimating equations (GEE) can be used to estimate the putative disease gene location(s) and expected identical-by-descent allele sharing in affected sib pairs at these gene(s). Extending the work of Liang et...
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