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Leveraging family history in genetic association analyses of binary traits.
BMC genomics - 1 Oct 2022
Zhang Yixin, Meigs James B, Liu Ching-Ti, Dupuis Josée, Sarnowski Chloé
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Considering relatives' health history in logistic regression for case-control genome-wide association studies (CC-GWAS) may provide new information that increases accuracy and power to detect disease associated genetic variants. We conducted simulations and analyzed type 2 diabetes (T2D) data from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) to compare two methods, liability threshold model conditional on both...
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