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Detection and replication of linkage to a complex human disease.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1997
Moldin S O
Abstract excerpt
Efforts to map susceptibility loci for complex human diseases frequently result in weak evidence for linkage, followed by failures to convincingly replicate. If a disease locus influences both affection status (AF) and a quantitative trait, a variant of the extreme discordant sib pair (EDSP) strategy may be used to judiciously sample families for a replication study. This approach was evaluated by conducting...
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