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Power and Design Considerations for a General Class of Family-Based Association Tests: Quantitative Traits

✍ Scribed by Christoph Lange; Dawn L. DeMeo; Nan M. Laird

Book ID
117854078
Publisher
American Society of Human Genetics
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
448 KB
Volume
71
Category
Article
ISSN
0002-9297

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