The impact of imprecisely measured covariates on estimating gene-environment interactions

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Greenwood, Darren C ^a   Gilthorpe, Mark S ^a   Cade, Janet E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HFE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; IRON INTAKE;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IRON INTAKE; MIDDLE AGED; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMANS; IRON, DIETARY; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 33746406822     PISSN: 14712288     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-6-21     Document Type: Article

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