Assessing effects of disease genes and gene-environment interactions: The case-spouse design and the counterfactual-control analysis

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 683-685

  Lee, Wen Chung ^a,b   Chang, Chin Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; GENE; HEALTH RISK; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PARENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIBLING; SPOUSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 33746349521     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.043554     Document Type: Article

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