Correcting for cryptic relatedness by a regression-based genomic control method

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Genomic control (GC) method is a useful tool to correct for the cryptic relatedness in population-based association studies. It was originally proposed for correcting for the variance inflation of Cochran-Armitage's additive tre...

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Main Authors: Yang Yaning, Hou Bo, Yan Ting
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-12-01
Series:BMC Genetics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/10/78