Article
Comparison of methods incorporating quantitative covariates into affected sib pair linkage analysis.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 2006
Tsai Hui-Ju, Weeks Daniel E
Abstract excerpt
For complex traits, it may be possible to increase the power to detect linkage if one takes advantage of covariate information. Several statistics have been proposed that incorporate quantitative covariate information into affected sib pair (ASP) linkage analysis. However, it is not clear how these statistics perform under different gene-environment (G x E) interactions. We compare representative statistics to...
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