TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snieder,Harold
AU  - MacGregor,Alex J.
AU  - Spector,T.D.
TI  - Advances in twin and sib-pair analysis
SN  - 051104299X
AV  - RB155 .A38 2000eb
U1  - 616.042 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, [Oxford]
PB  - Greenwich Medical Media, Distributed worldwide by Oxford University Press
KW  - Medical genetics
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Twins
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Brothers and sisters
KW  - Genetics, Medical
KW  - methods
KW  - Twin Studies
KW  - genetics
KW  - Diseases in Twins
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Genetic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Genetics
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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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