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Tests for linkage and association in nuclear families.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 1997
Martin E R, Kaplan N L, Weir B S
Abstract excerpt
The transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT) originally was introduced to test for linkage between a genetic marker and a disease-susceptibility locus, in the presence of association. Recently, the TDT has been used to test for association in the presence of linkage. The motivation for this is that linkage analysis typically identifies large candidate regions, and further refinement is necessary before a search for...
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