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TDT-HET: a new transmission disequilibrium test that incorporates locus heterogeneity into the analysis of family-based association data.
BMC bioinformatics - 20 Jan 2012
Londono Douglas, Buyske Steven, Finch Stephen J, Sharma Swarkar, Wise Carol A, Gordon Derek
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BACKGROUND: Locus heterogeneity is one of the most documented phenomena in genetics. To date, relatively little work had been done on the development of methods to address locus heterogeneity in genetic association analysis. Motivated by Zhou and Pan's work, we present a mixture model of linked and unlinked trios and develop a statistical method to estimate the probability that a heterozygous parent transmits the...
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