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Effects of marker information on sib-pair linkage analysis of a rare disease.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1995
Korczak J F, Pugh E W, Premkumar S, Guo X, Elston R C, Bailey-Wilson J E
Abstract excerpt
Model-free sib-pair linkage analysis was used to screen the GAW9-Problem 1 data set for evidence of linkage of a rare disease to any of 360 highly polymorphic marker loci. Negative regressions nominally significant at the alpha = 0.05 level were obtained for 44 markers; however all of these proved to be Type I errors. None of the four disease loci were detected by sib-pair linkage, which was not surprising, given...
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