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A Kinship Analysis of Asthma Among the Hutterites
Author(s) -
Lin Jennifer,
Hinrichs Anthony,
Suarez Brian K.
Publication year - 2001
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/gepi.2001.21.s1.s252
Subject(s) - kinship , identity (music) , asthma , demography , genealogy , geography , sociology , medicine , history , anthropology , physics , acoustics
A formal kinship analysis of asthma in a large Hutterite kindred indicates that cases are significantly more related to one another than are age matched controls. The higher kinship coefficient is shown to be due to an increased probability of the condensed identity state ∆ 8 which, in turn, is shown to be due to an increased probability of detailed identity state δ 10 . © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.