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Familial risks for hospitalization with endocrine diseases.

Kari Hemminki, Xiaochen Shu, Xinjun Li, Jianguang Ji, Jan Sundquist, and Kristina Sundquist

J Clin Endocrinol Metab 93(12):4755-8 (2008) PMID 18827002

Familial clustering of a disease is an indicator of a possible heritable cause. In the era of genome scans, the consideration of data on heritability should be important in the assessment of the likely success of the scans.

DOI: 10.1210/jc.2008-1210
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