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Cost-effective sib-pair designs in the mapping of quantitative-trait loci.
American journal of human genetics - 1 May 1997
Zhao H, Zhang H, Rotter J I
Abstract excerpt
The extreme discordant-sib-pair design has been found to be the most powerful, across most genetic models. In this paper, we address two of the most frequently asked questions related to this design. First, under the extreme discordant-sib-pair design, a large number of people have to be screened for the phenotype of interest, before the desired number of discordant sibs can be collected for genotyping and...
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