Identifying variants that contribute to linkage for dichotomous and quantitative traits in extended pedigrees
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Identifying variants that contribute to linkage for dichotomous and quantitative traits in extended pedigrees
Compared to genome-wide association analysis, linkage analysis is less influenced by allelic heterogeneity. The use of linkage information in large families should provide a great opportunity to identify less frequent variants. We perform a linkage scan for both dichotomous and quantitative traits in eight extended families. For the dichotomous trait, we identified one linkage region on chromos...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Proceedings
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1753-6561
DOI: 10.1186/1753-6561-5-s9-s68