Family-based association tests 


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A general class of genetic association tests that uses families with one or more affected children as the observations rather than unrelated cases and controls. The analysis treats the allele that is transmitted to (one or more) affected children from each parent as the ‘case’ and the untransmitted allele is treated as the ‘control’ to avoid the influence of population subdivision. (Beaumont 2004)