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Using ancestry matching to combine family-based and unrelated samples for genome-wide association studies.
Statistics in medicine - 10 Dec 2010
Crossett Andrew, Kent Brian P, Klei Lambertus, Ringquist Steven, Trucco Massimo, Roeder Kathryn, Devlin Bernie
Abstract excerpt
We propose a method to analyze family-based samples together with unrelated cases and controls. The method builds on the idea of matched case-control analysis using conditional logistic regression (CLR). For each trio within the family, a case (the proband) and matched pseudo-controls are constructed, based upon the transmitted and untransmitted alleles. Unrelated controls, matched by genetic ancestry, supplement...
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