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Association studies in the presence of comorbidity: design and analysis.
American journal of medical genetics - 7 Sept 1998
Wickramaratne P J, Hodge S E, Rotondo A
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Methods for the design and analysis of allelic association studies in the presence of two comorbid disorders are discussed. These methods are applicable to population-based (i.e., case-control) designs. We first develop probability models that represent pathways to the comorbidity of two disorders when it is hypothesized that at least one of the two disorders is associated with a specific allele. These potential...
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