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A rare variant association test in family-based designs and non-normal quantitative traits.
Statistics in medicine - 15 Mar 2016
Lakhal-Chaieb Lajmi, Oualkacha Karim, Richards Brent J, Greenwood Celia M T
Abstract excerpt
Rare variant studies are now being used to characterize the genetic diversity between individuals and may help to identify substantial amounts of the genetic variation of complex diseases and quantitative phenotypes. Family data have been shown to be powerful to interrogate rare variants. Consequently, several rare variants association tests have been recently developed for family-based designs, but typically,...
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