Article
A likelihood ratio approach to family-based association studies with covariates.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Jan 2006
Baksh M F, Balding D J, Vyse T J, Whittaker J C
Abstract excerpt
We introduce a procedure for association based analysis of nuclear families that allows for dichotomous and more general measurements of phenotype and inclusion of covariate information. Standard generalized linear models are used to relate phenotype and its predictors. Our test procedure, based on the likelihood ratio, unifies the estimation of all parameters through the likelihood itself and yields maximum...
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