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Testing candidate genes that may affect susceptibility to leprosy.
International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association - 1 Dec 1997
Cervino A C, Curnow R N
Abstract excerpt
Several statistical methods have been used to search familial data sets for marker alleles associated with the occurrence of a disease. In the present paper, a recently developed method is used to re-analyze published data on leprosy and candidate genes at the HLA loci. This new method of analysis, the randomization transmission disequilibrium test (TDT), confirmed previous conclusions that there was no...
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