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Increased efficiency of case-control association analysis by using allele-sharing and covariate information.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2008
Schmidt Silke, Schmidt Michael A, Qin Xuejun, Martin Eden R, Hauser Elizabeth R
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OBJECTIVE: We compared the efficiency of case selection strategies for following up a genome-wide linkage screen of multiplex families. We simulated datasets under three models by which continuous environmental or clinical covariates may contribute to disease risk or linkage heterogeneity: (i) a quantitative trait locus (QTL) underlying a continuous disease risk factor, (ii) a gene-environment interaction model,...
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