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Evaluation of methods accounting for population structure with pedigree data and continuous outcomes.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Sept 2011
Peloso Gina M, Dupuis Josée, Lunetta Kathryn L
Abstract excerpt
Methods to account for population structure (PS) in genome-wide association studies have been well developed in samples of unrelated individuals, but when a sample is composed of families, the task of finding and accounting for PS is not as straight forward. Family-based tests that condition on parental genotypes or their sufficient statistics are immune to biases due to PS, but are known to have low power,...
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