Counterpoint: Bias from population stratification is not a major threat to the validity of conclusions from epidemiological studies of common polymorphisms and cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 513-520

  Wacholder, Sholom ^a   Rothman, Nathaniel ^a   Caporaso, Nell ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; ETHNOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0036275761     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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