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A multivariate method for detecting genetic linkage, with application to a pedigree with an adverse lipoprotein phenotype.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 1990
Amos C I, Elston R C, Bonney G E, Keats B J, Berenson G S
Abstract excerpt
The robust or model-free method for detecting linkage developed by Haseman and Elston for data from sib pairs is extended to incorporate observations of multiple traits on each individual. A method is proposed that estimates the linear function that results in the strongest correlation between the squared pair differences in the trait measurements and identity by descent at a marker locus. The method is...
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