Effects of censored variables on family studies.

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In the present paper effects of censored variables on estimates of genetic and environmental influences were studied. Analytic results showed with 50% censoring, about 15-20% of the variance may be attributed to the wrong source and that this amount increases rapidly with more than 70% censoring. Censoring effects on comparisons between different genetic studies, subgroups within a study (e.g., sex or age...

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