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Reliability of self-reported ancestry among siblings: implications for genetic association studies.
American journal of epidemiology - 1 Mar 2006
Burnett Melinda S, Strain Kari J, Lesnick Timothy G, de Andrade Mariza, Rocca Walter A, Maraganore Demetrius M
Abstract excerpt
This study investigated the reliability of self-reported ancestry by comparing the interview responses of probands and their siblings. A total of 546 sibling pairs were ascertained in a family-based study of susceptibility genes for Parkinson's disease and asked to identify maternal and paternal countries of origin. Probands were recruited prospectively from the Department of Neurology of the Mayo Clinic in...
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