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Genetic association analysis using sibship data: a multilevel model approach.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Zhao Yang, Yu Hao, Zhu Ying, Ter-Minassian Monica, Peng Zhihang, Shen Hongbing, Diao Nancy, Chen Feng
Abstract excerpt
Family based association study (FBAS) has the advantages of controlling for population stratification and testing for linkage and association simultaneously. We propose a retrospective multilevel model (rMLM) approach to analyze sibship data by using genotypic information as the dependent variabl...
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