Sample size requirements for matched case-control studies of gene-environment interaction

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-50

  Gauderman, W James ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Interaction; Power; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREAST CANCER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOMINANT GENE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERNET; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PARENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; RECESSIVE GENE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AIR POLLUTION; ASIAN AMERICANS; ASTHMA; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0037080655     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.973     Document Type: Article

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