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Including non-informative parents in transmission-based association tests.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jun 2017
Kulkarni Hemant, Ghosh Saurabh
Abstract excerpt
The classical transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) based on a trio design uses information only on the allele transmitted by a heterozygous parent at a marker locus as homozygous parents are non-informative about linkage. However, the phenotype of an offspring depends on the alleles transmitted by both parents, irrespective of whether the parents are homozygous or heterozygous, and hence carry useful...
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