Use of relatives of cases as controls to identify risk factors when an interaction between environmental and genetic factors exists

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 649-657

  Andrieu, N ^a   Goldstein, A M ^b  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental exposure; Genetic susceptibility; Interactions; Odds ratios; Relatives

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RISK; RISK FACTOR;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PEDIGREE; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 0029947914     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/25.3.649     Document Type: Article

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