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Estimation of the relative risk of developing clinical scrapie: the role of prion protein (PrP) genotype and selection bias.
The Veterinary record - 14 Jan 2006
Tongue S C, Pfeiffer D U, Warner R, Elliott H, Del Rio Vilas V
Abstract excerpt
Prion protein (PrP) genotype data from statutory confirmed cases and from three non-case datasets have been used to calculate the odds ratio (or) for the development of clinical scrapie for an individual sheep of a given PrP genotype, compared with one possessing the "wild-type" ARQ/ARQ genotype. Logistic regression has been used to estimate the ors, and a multiple-test procedure has been used to evaluate the...
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