Power comparisons of the transmission/disequilibrium test and sib-transmission/disequilibrium-test statistics.

This work was supported in part by the Special Trustees of Guy's Hospital. We would like to thank Robert Curnow and David Balding for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article.

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