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Design Considerations for Genetic Linkage and Association Studies.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2017
Nsengimana Jérémie, Bishop D Timothy
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This chapter describes the main issues that genetic epidemiologists usually consider in the design of linkage and association studies. For linkage, we briefly consider the situation of rare highly penetrant alleles showing a disease pattern consistent with Mendelian inheritance investigated through parametric methods in large pedigrees, or with autozygosity mapping in inbred families, and we then turn our focus...
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