Testing concordance of clinical characteristics in familial studies with application to inflammatory bowel diseases.

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The etiology of chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) remains unknown, with both genetic and environmental risk factors having been implicated. A recent collaborative study of IBD provides clinical data from families with three or more affected first-degree relatives. The scientific question is whether specific clinical characteristics aggregate among affected individuals within families. Gastroenterological...

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