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Table 1 Distributions of affected sibling pair sizes

From: Use of supplementary phenotype to identify additional rheumatoid arthritis loci in a linkage analysis of 342 UK affected sibling pair families

Size of sibling pair

No. of families

No. of subjects

Mean onset age (years ± standard error)

2

306

612

-

3

31

93

-

4

3

12

-

5

1

5

-

6

1

6

-

All

342

728

41.63 ± 0.51

Females

-

537

41.44 ± 0.61

Males

-

191

42.17 ± 0.89