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Relationship estimation in affected sib pair analysis of late-onset diseases.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Jan 2000
Göring H H, Ott J
Abstract excerpt
In linkage studies, errors in pedigree structure will often be uncovered through Mendelian inconsistencies. In affected sib pair analysis of diseases with late onset, however, such mistakes will usually go undetected since parental genotypes are commonly not known. Cases of nonpaternity, unrecorded adoption or accidental sample swap in the laboratory will then not be noticed. Typically, such relationship errors...
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