Linkage analysis of alcohol dependence using both affected and discordant sib pairs

The basic idea of affected-sib-pair (ASP) linkage analysis is to test whether the inheritance pattern of a marker deviates from Mendelian expectation in a sample of ASPs. The test depends on an assumed Mendelian control distribution of the number of marker alleles shared identical by descent (IBD),...

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Main Authors: Shih, Pei-Ying, Wang, Tao, Xing, Chao, Sinha, Moumita, Song, Yeunjoo, Elston, Robert C
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2005
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1866749/