Epidemiological studies in the information and genomics era: Experience of the Clinical Genome of Cancer Project in São Paulo, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 545-553

  Wunsch Filho V ^a   Eluf Neto, J ^a   Lotufo, P A ^a   da Silva, Jr ^a   Zago, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cancer epidemiological studies; Data control quality; Large scale studies; Molecular epidemiology; Multicenter studies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAZIL; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 33645813115     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2006000400016     Document Type: Article

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