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Coordinated conditional simulation with SLINK and SUP of many markers linked or associated to a trait in large pedigrees.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2011
Schäffer Alejandro A, Lemire Mathieu, Ott Jürg, Lathrop G Mark, Weeks Daniel E
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Simulation of genotypes in pedigrees is an important tool to evaluate the power of a linkage or an association study and to assess the empirical significance of results. SLINK is a widely-used package for pedigree simulations, but its implementation has not previously been described in a published paper. SLINK was initially derived from the LINKAGE programs. Over the 20 years since its release, SLINK has been...
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