Interval estimation of genetic susceptibility for retrospective case-control studies

BMC Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Zaykin, Dmitri V ^a   Meng, Zhaoling ^a,b   Ghosh, Sujit K ^b  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABACAVIR; HLA B57 ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PHARMACOGENETICS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 25444445035     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-5-9     Document Type: Article

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