Association and aggregation analysis using kin-cohort designs with applications to genotype and family history data from the Washington Ashkenazi Study

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 123-138

  Chatterjee, Nilanjan ^a   Shih, Joanna ^b   Hartge, Patricia ^a   Brody, Lawrence ^c   Tucker, Margaret ^a   Wacholder, Sholom ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Copula models; Marginal likelihood; Penetrance; Residual familial aggregation; Semiparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DNA;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; JEW; ONCOGENE; PENETRANCE; RELATIVE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BIOMETRY; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JEWS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RISK FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0034871559     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.1022     Document Type: Review

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