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A hybrid design: case-parent triads supplemented by control-mother dyads.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Feb 2009
Vermeulen Sita H, Shi Min, Weinberg Clarice R, Umbach David M
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Hybrid designs arose from an effort to combine the benefits of family-based and population-based study designs. A recently proposed hybrid approach augments case-parent triads with population-based control-parent triads, genotyping everyone except the control offspring. Including parents of controls substantially improves statistical efficiency for testing and estimating both offspring and maternal genetic...
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