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Use of parents, sibs, and unrelated controls for detection of associations between genetic markers and disease.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Nov 1998
Schaid D J, Rowland C
Abstract excerpt
Detecting the association between genetic markers and complex diseases can be a critical first step toward identification of the genetic basis of disease. Misleading associations can be avoided by choosing as controls the parents of diseased cases, but the availability of parents often limits this design to early-onset disease. Alternatively, sib controls offer a valid design. A general multivariate score...
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