Using survival methods to estimate age-a
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Dr. L. Adrienne Cupples; Norma C. Terrin; Richard H. Myers; Ralph B. D'Agostino;
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Article
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1989
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Two important considerations in genetic disease are the risk of inheriting the gene for a disease and the age-at-onset distribution among those inheriting it. This paper describes the use of survival data analytic methods to estimate these entities. When a sample consists of children and/or siblings