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Improving power and robustness for detecting genetic association with extreme-value sampling design.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Dec 2011
Chen Hua Yun, Li Mingyao
Abstract excerpt
Extreme-value sampling design that samples subjects with extremely large or small quantitative trait values is commonly used in genetic association studies. Samples in such designs are often treated as "cases" and "controls" and analyzed using logistic regression. Such a case-control analysis ignores the potential dose-response relationship between the quantitative trait and the underlying trait locus and thus...
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