Chunk #17 — Results

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Linkage analysis merging replicate phenotypes: an application to three quantitative phenotypes in two African samples.

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Figures 2 and 3 indicate that the linkage signals obtained with Fisher’s method tend to be higher than those obtained using the GLMM, which, we speculate, is due to the fact that Fisher’s method treats the identical genotypic structure of the 50 replicates as independent observations.