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Impact of adjustments for intermediate phenotypes on the power to detect linkage.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1997
Arnett D K, Pankow J S, Atwood L D, Sellers T A
Abstract excerpt
Since the manifestation of a complex disease is likely to be influenced through multiple genetic and/or environmental pathways, it may be advantageous to adjust for these multiple factors in a genetic analysis of a complex quantitative trait. Sib-pair linkage analysis was performed on the simulated complex quantitative trait Q1 after adjustment for age, sex, and the environmental factor (i.e., minimally adjusted)...
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