Design considerations in a sib-pair study of linkage for susceptibility loci in cancer

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Modern approaches to identifying new genes associated with disease allow very fine analysis of associaton and can be performed in population based case-control studies. However, the sibpair design is still valuable because it require...

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Main Authors: Finkelstein Dianne M, Yeap Beow Y, Amos Christopher I, Kerber Richard A, Thomas Duncan C
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-07-01
Series:BMC Medical Genetics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2350/9/64