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A model for fine mapping in family based association studies.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2009
Boehringer Stefan, Pfeiffer Ruth M
Abstract excerpt
Genome wide association studies for complex diseases are typically followed by more focused characterization of the identified genetic region. We propose a latent class model to evaluate a candidate region with several measured markers using observations on families. The main goal is to estimate linkage disequilibrium (LD) between the observed markers and the putative true but unobserved disease locus in the...
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