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Abstract

I briefly describe my early life and how, through a series of serendipitous events, I became a genetic epidemiologist. I discuss how the Elston–Stewart algorithm was discovered and its contribution to segregation, linkage, and association analysis. New linkage findings and paternity testing resulted from having a genotyping lab. The different meanings of interaction—statistical and biological—are clarified. The computer package S.A.G.E. (Statistical Analysis for Genetic Epidemiology), based on extensive method development over two decades, was conceived in 1986, flourished for 20 years, and is now freely available for use and further development. Finally, I describe methods to estimate and test hypotheses about familial correlations, and point out that the liability model often used to estimate disease heritability estimates the heritability of that liability, rather than of the disease itself, and so can be highly dependent on the assumed distribution of that liability.

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