Predictive testing for complex diseases using multiple genes: Fact or fiction?

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 395-400

  Janssens, A Cecile J W ^a   Aulchenko, Yurii S ^a   Elefante, Stefano ^a   Borsboom, Gerard J J M ^a   Steyerberg, Ewout W ^a   Van Duijn, Cornelia M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genetic profiling; Predictive testing; Test performance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AREA UNDER CURVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33747881836     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gim.0000229689.18263.f4     Document Type: Article

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