Genetic associations in large versus small studies: An empirical assessment

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Volumn 361, Issue 9357, 2003, Pages 567-571

  Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b,c   Trikalinos, Thomas A ^a,c   Ntzani, Evangelia E ^a   Contopoulos Ioannidis, Despina G ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMPIRICISM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; STUDY;

EID: 0037442235     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12516-0     Document Type: Article

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