GENEHUNTER++SAD

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

Description

implementation of the Sad statistic, more robust to transmission ratio distortion in the context of allele sharing

Author

Mathieu Lemire (email: mlemire@sdf.lonestar.org)

URL

http://mlemire.freeshell.org/software.html

Reference

Lemire, Roslin, Laprise, Hudson, Morgan (2004), “Transmission-ratio distortion and allele sharing in affected sib pairs: a new linkage statistic with reduced bias, with application to chromosome 6q25.3”, American Journal of Human Genetics, 75:571-586.