Application of DNA pooling to large studies of disease

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 3841-3850

  Law, Graham R ^a   Rollinson, Sara ^b   Feltbower, Richard ^b   Allan, James M ^a   Morgan, Gareth J ^b   Roman, Eve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case control; DNA pooling; Epidemiology; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALLELES; ANTIGENS, CD95; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 11344273426     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1996     Document Type: Article

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