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Retrospective Association Analysis of Binary Traits: Overcoming Some Limitations of the Additive Polygenic Model.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2015
Jiang Duo, Mbatchou Joelle, McPeek Mary Sara
Abstract excerpt
Case-control genetic association analysis is an extremely common tool in human complex trait mapping. From a statistical point of view, the analysis of binary traits poses somewhat different challenges from the analysis of quantitative traits. Desirable features of a binary trait mapping approach would include (1) phenotype modeled as binary, with appropriate dependence between the mean and variance; (2)...
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