Statistical methods for the analysis of genetic association studies.

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This paper applies a retrospective logistic regression model (Prentice, 1976) using a sandwich variance estimator (White, 1982; Zeger et al. 1985) to genetic association studies in which alleles are treated as dependent variables. The validity of switching the positions of allele and trait variables in the regression model is ensured by the invariance property of the odds ratio. The approach is shown to be able...

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