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Correcting for cryptic relatedness by a regression-based genomic control method.
BMC genetics - 2 Dec 2009
Yan Ting, Hou Bo, Yang Yaning
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BACKGROUND: Genomic control (GC) method is a useful tool to correct for the cryptic relatedness in population-based association studies. It was originally proposed for correcting for the variance inflation of Cochran-Armitage's additive trend test by using information from unlinked null markers, and was later generalized to be applicable to other tests with the additional requirement that the null markers are...
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