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cryptic relatedness: a standalone construct

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Genetic epidemiology

unrecognized close kinship among supposedly unrelated study participants, which inflates false positives in case-control association tests.

In genetic epidemiology, cryptic relatedness refers to unrecognized close kinship among supposedly unrelated study participants, which inflates false positives in case-control association tests. This meaning comes from Voight (2005) in PLoS Genetics.[1]

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association4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs kinship3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two ideas of relatedness

References

Voight, B. F., & Pritchard, J. K. (2005). Confounding from Cryptic Relatedness in Case-Control Association Studies. PLoS Genetics, 1(3), e32. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0010032

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