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Sibling method increases risk assessment estimates for type 1 diabetes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Lam Hoang V, Nguyen Dat T, Nguyen Cao D
Abstract excerpt
We presented a risk assessment model to distinguish between type 1 diabetes (T1D) affected and unaffected siblings using only three single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotypes. In addition we calculated the heritability from genome-wide identity-by-descent (IBD) sharing between full siblings. We analyzed 1,253 pairs of affected individuals and their unaffected siblings (750 pairs from a discovery set and 503...
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