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Estimating sibling recurrence risk in population sample surveys.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2013
Graubard Barry I, Sirken Monroe G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Sibling recurrence risk (SRR) is a measure of familial aggregation of a disease and is often used in family-based studies in genetic epidemiology to indicate the existence of possible genes conferring susceptibility of disease. Estimating SRR requires information about the disease status of sibships of families with two or more siblings where at least one is affected. Since family-based studies...
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