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Haplotype sharing analysis in affected individuals from nuclear families with at least one affected offspring.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1997
Van der Meulen M A, te Meerman G J
Abstract excerpt
In diseases with a complex mode of inheritance, families with multiple affected individuals are difficult to ascertain. The haplotype sharing statistic (HSS) uses (hidden) co-ancestry between affected individuals from a founder population. These affected individuals will likely not only share the same mutation(s), but also the surrounding haplotype. We show that this method gives a low false positive rate, but...
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