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Advances in twin and sib-pair analysis / edited by Tim D. Spector, Harold Snieder and Alex J. MacGregor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Greenwich Medical Media ; [Oxford] : Distributed worldwide by Oxford University Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 266 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 051104299X
  • 9780511042997
  • 0585259321
  • 9780585259321
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Advances in twin and sib-pair analysis.DDC classification:
  • 616.042 21
LOC classification:
  • RB155 .A38 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The history of twin and sibling-pair studies / Tim D. Spector -- 2. Influence of design on the outcome of twin studies / David P. Strachan -- 3. Sample selection and outcome definition in twin studies: experiences from the Finnish twin cohort study / Jaakko Kaprio, Pia K. Verkasalo and Markku Koskenvuo -- 4. Practical approaches to account for bias and confounding in twin data / Alex J. MacGregor -- 5. The co-twin control study / David L. Duffy -- 6. Generalisability and assumptions of twin studies / Kirsten Ohm Kyvik -- 7. Fetal programming or genes? / David W. Phillips -- 8. Twin and sib-pair studies in developing countries / Xiping Xu, Changzhong Chen and Tianhua Niu / [and others] -- 9. Comparison of analysis of variance and likelihood models of twin data analysis / Joe C. Christian and Christopher J. Williams -- 10. Path analysis of age-related disease traits / Harold Snieder -- 11. Survival analysis methods in twin research / Andrew Pickles -- 12. Gene-environment interaction and twin studies / Nick Martin -- 13. Why 'common environmental effects' are so uncommon in the literature / John L. Hopper -- 14. Using sib-pairs and parent-child trios in association studies / Cathryn M. Lewis -- 15. 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 and Myles S. Faith -- 16. The use of twins in quantitative trait locus mapping / Nicholas J. Schork and Xiping Xu -- 17. Multivariate QTL analysis using structural equation modelling: a look at power under simple conditions / Dorret I. Boomsma and Conor V. Dolan -- 18. QTL mapping with sib-pairs: the flexibility of Mx / Michael C. Neale -- 19. Implications of pharmacogenetic polymorphisms for human health / C. Roland Wolf and Gillian Smith.
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Print version record.

1. The history of twin and sibling-pair studies / Tim D. Spector -- 2. Influence of design on the outcome of twin studies / David P. Strachan -- 3. Sample selection and outcome definition in twin studies: experiences from the Finnish twin cohort study / Jaakko Kaprio, Pia K. Verkasalo and Markku Koskenvuo -- 4. Practical approaches to account for bias and confounding in twin data / Alex J. MacGregor -- 5. The co-twin control study / David L. Duffy -- 6. Generalisability and assumptions of twin studies / Kirsten Ohm Kyvik -- 7. Fetal programming or genes? / David W. Phillips -- 8. Twin and sib-pair studies in developing countries / Xiping Xu, Changzhong Chen and Tianhua Niu / [and others] -- 9. Comparison of analysis of variance and likelihood models of twin data analysis / Joe C. Christian and Christopher J. Williams -- 10. Path analysis of age-related disease traits / Harold Snieder -- 11. Survival analysis methods in twin research / Andrew Pickles -- 12. Gene-environment interaction and twin studies / Nick Martin -- 13. Why 'common environmental effects' are so uncommon in the literature / John L. Hopper -- 14. Using sib-pairs and parent-child trios in association studies / Cathryn M. Lewis -- 15. 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 and Myles S. Faith -- 16. The use of twins in quantitative trait locus mapping / Nicholas J. Schork and Xiping Xu -- 17. Multivariate QTL analysis using structural equation modelling: a look at power under simple conditions / Dorret I. Boomsma and Conor V. Dolan -- 18. QTL mapping with sib-pairs: the flexibility of Mx / Michael C. Neale -- 19. Implications of pharmacogenetic polymorphisms for human health / C. Roland Wolf and Gillian Smith.

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