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Confidence intervals for relative risk estimates from affected‐sib‐pair data
Author(s) -
Cordell Heather J.,
Olson Jane M.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
genetic epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.301
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1098-2272
pISSN - 0741-0395
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-2272(1997)14:6<593::aid-gepi7>3.0.co;2-0
Subject(s) - confidence interval , relative risk , linkage (software) , statistics , demography , medicine , biology , mathematics , genetics , gene , sociology
Confidence intervals for relative risk parameters estimated using affected‐sib‐pair data are derived and evaluated for two markers showing previous evidence of linkage to bipolar illness. For D18S41 we found some evidence, and for D18S37 stronger evidence, of relative risks greater than 1, although in both cases the estimated confidence intervals for the parameters are wide. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.