Advances in twin and sib-pair analysis /
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Greenwich Medical Media,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- The history of twin and sibling-pair studies / Tim D. Spector
- Influence of design on the outcome of twin studies / David P. Strachan
- Sample selection and outcome definition in twin studies: experiences from the Finnish twin cohort study / Jaakko Kaprio, Pia K. Verkasalo, Markku Koskenvuo
- Practical approaches to account for bias and confounding twin data / Alex J. MacGregor
- The co-twin control study / David L. Duffy
- Generalisability and assumptions of twin studies / Kirsten Ohm Kyvik
- Fetal programming or genes? / David I.W. Phillips
- Twin and sib-pair studies in developing countries / Xiping Xu ... [et al.]
- Comparison of analysis of variance and likelihood models of twin data analysis / Joe C. Christian, Christopher J. Williams
- Path analysis of age-related disease traits / Harold Snieder
- Survival analysis methods in twin research / Andrew Pickles
- Gene-environment interaction and twin studies / Nick Martin
- Why 'common environmental effects' are so uncommon in the literature / John L. Hopper
- Using sib-pairs and parent-child trios in association studies / Cathryn M. Lewis
- The concept of genome-wide power and a consideration of its potential use in mapping polygenic traits: the example of sib-pairs / David B. Allison, Myles S. Faith
- The use of twins in quantitative trait locus mapping / Nicholas J. Schork, Xiping Su
- Multivariate QTL analysis using structural equation modelling: a look at power under simple conditions / Dorret I. Boomsma, Conor V. Dolan
- QTL mapping with sib-pairs: the flexibility of Mx / Michael C. Neale
- Implications of pharmacogenetic polymorphisms for human health / C. Roland Wolf, Gillian Smith.