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Estimating the additive genetic effect of the X chromosome.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Dec 2005
Kent Jack W, Dyer Thomas D, Blangero John
Abstract excerpt
We propose a method for efficient estimation of the additive genetic effect of the X chromosome with explicit modeling of eutherian-type dosage compensation. The theoretical derivation of the variance-components model for X-linked loci is reviewed in detail. We develop a model of dosage compensation that allows for both incomplete and heterogeneous lyonization, the existence of which is suggested by recent...
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