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A novel approach to detect parent-of-origin effects from pedigree data with application to Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Nov 2007
Shete Sanjay, Elston Robert C, Lu Yue
Abstract excerpt
The parent-of-origin phenomenon in humans is now well recognized, and the deregulation of imprinted genes has been implicated in a number of human diseases. Recently, several linkage analysis methods have been developed to allow for parent-of-origin effects in the analysis of pedigree data. However, in general, one does not know a priori if disease-causing loci are imprinted or not. Linkage methods that allow for...
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