Measures of family resemblance for binary traits: likelihood based inference.

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Detection and estimation of measures of familial aggregation is considered the first step to establish whether a certain disease has genetic component. Such measures are usually estimated from observational studies on siblings, parent-offspring, extended pedigrees or twins. When the trait of interest is quantitative (e.g. Blood pressures, body mass index, blood glucose levels, etc.) efficient likelihood...

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