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SUBMITTER: Yan Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4825859 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yan Qi Q Tiwari Hemant K HK Yi Nengjun N Gao Guimin G Zhang Kui K Lin Wan-Yu WY Lou Xiang-Yang XY Cui Xiangqin X Liu Nianjun N
Human heredity 20150310 2
<h4>Objective</h4>The existing methods for identifying multiple rare variants underlying complex diseases in family samples are underpowered. Therefore, we aim to develop a new set-based method for an association study of dichotomous traits in family samples.<h4>Methods</h4>We introduce a framework for testing the association of genetic variants with diseases in family samples based on a generalized linear mixed model. Our proposed method is based on a kernel machine regression and can be viewed ...[more]