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Chunk #74 — Background — Where and how the data were collected

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Construction of the model for the Genetic Analysis Workshop 14 simulated data: genotype-phenotype relationships, gene interaction, linkage, association, disequilibrium, and ascertainment effects for a complex phenotype.
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3. The community of Danacaa is one of the poorest in the world, despite the extremely high productivity of its inhabitants, its large industrial base, and its high GNP. Due to poor decision-making, the result of electing unqualified but popular neophyte politicians to office, almost its entire GNP goes to servicing the enormous domestic and foreign debt and the country's medical care system. Speech patterns typical of KPD also appear to be relatively common. Investigators at the Danacaa Urban Medical Benefits Institute collected families in which behavioral symptoms were prominent.