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Mixed Model Association with Family-Biased Case-Control Ascertainment.
American journal of human genetics - 5 Jan 2017
Hayeck Tristan J, Loh Po-Ru, Pollack Samuela, Gusev Alexander, Patterson Nick, Zaitlen Noah A, Price Alkes L
Abstract excerpt
Mixed models have become the tool of choice for genetic association studies; however, standard mixed model methods may be poorly calibrated or underpowered under family sampling bias and/or case-control ascertainment. Previously, we introduced a liability threshold-based mixed model association statistic (LTMLM) to address case-control ascertainment in unrelated samples. Here, we consider family-biased...
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