Exploiting gene-environment independence in family-based case-control studies: Increased power for detecting associations, interactions and joint effects

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 138-156

  Chatterjee, Nilanjan ^a   Kalaylioglu, Zeynep ^b   Carroll, Raymond J ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Case only designs; Conditional likelihood; Conditional logistic regression; Family based studies; Gene environment independence; Gene environment interactions; Genetic epidemiology; Matched case control studies; Population stratification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAMILY; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 12744259875     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20049     Document Type: Article

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