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Individual disease risk and multimetric analysis of Crohn disease.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Oct 2008
Gibson Jane, Collins Andrew, Morton Newton
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Rare dominant genes with high penetrance can be identified by linkage without inbreeding, whereas rare recessive genes with high penetrance are most efficiently recognized by autozygosity mapping of homozygotes in pedigrees with preferential inbreeding. On the contrary, complex inheritance is characterized by common genes with low penetrance, for which family studies and inbreeding are inefficient. Here, we...
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