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Testing gene-gene interactions in the case-parents design.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2011
Yu Zhaoxia
Abstract excerpt
The case-parents design has been widely used to detect genetic associations as it can prevent spurious association that could occur in population-based designs. When examining the effect of an individual genetic locus on a disease, logistic regressions developed by conditioning on parental genotypes provide complete protection from spurious association caused by population stratification. However, when testing...
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