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A genomic imprinting test for ordinal traits in pedigree data.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Feb 2008
Feng Rui, Zhang Heping
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting can lead maternally and paternally derived alleles with identical nucleotide sequences to function differently and has been found to affect the complex inheritance of a variety of human disorders. Statistical methods that differentiate the parent-of-origin effects on human diseases are available for binary traits and continuous traits. However, numerous common diseases are measured on discrete...
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