Increased power to detect gene-environment interaction using siblings controls

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 705-711

  Andrieu, Nadine ^a,b,c   Dondon, Marie Gabrielle ^b   Goldstein, Alisa M ^d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Case Control Study; Conditional Analysis; G E Interaction; Sibling Controls; Study Design; Unconditional Analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIBLING;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SIBLINGS;

EID: 24644476896     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2005.01.002     Document Type: Article

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