Familial aggregation of environmental risk factors and familial aggregation of disease

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 151, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1121-1131

  Guo, Sun Wei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data interpretation; Familial correlation; Risk; Statistical; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FAMILY STRUCTURE; RISK FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILIAL INCIDENCE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0034210142     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a010156     Document Type: Article

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