On planning of samples for linkage analysis: two ways of a sample size reduction.
The sample size required for a given type I and type II errors of linkage decision is determined by using the earlier proposed method of the linkage test power estimation [Ginsburg et al., 1996]. Dependence of the sample size on the heterozygotic genotype penetrance is investigated. Two approaches to sample size reduction are considered: the choice of marker gene and the special extension of analyzed pedigree structures. Their effects are quantitatively evaluated in some illustrative situations. It is shown that a practical reduction in sample size can be achieved only when the added part of a pedigree has a special set of phenotypic characteristics in its members.
Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
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Axenovich
D008040:Genetic Linkage; D005838:Genotype; D006579:Heterozygote; D006801:Humans; D015810:Linkage Disequilibrium; D010375:Pedigree