Table 2

Findings of linkage analysis.

Analysis Method
Whole data
(ASPs = 190)
Subset Data (Positive LOD score families) (ASPs = 77)





Sac1 LOD score
(P value)
-75G>A
+83C>T

Multipoint Linkage analysis
NS
7.42 (<0.001)
Single Point Linkage
NS
4.49 (<0.0001)
2.77 (0.0002)
NS
IBD Pi
(P value)
NS
Pi 0.59 (<0.0001)
Pi 0.56 (<0.0001)
Pi 0.52 (0.0012)
QTL
NS
TC 1.42 (0.005)
HDL-c 1.72 (0.002)
ApoB 1.19 (0.010)
NS
NS

ASPs, Affected sib pairs; IBD, identity by descent; Pi, mean proportion of allele sharing; NS, Not significant, QTL, Quantitative trait loci.

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