A method for meta-analysis of case-control genetic association studies using logistic regression

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Bagos, Pantelis G ^a,b   Nikolopoulos, Georgios K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

^c Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

Author keywords

Genetic epidemiology; Logistic regression; Meta analysis; Random effects

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COVARIANCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MODEL; GENOTYPE; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INHERITANCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 34250721183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1281     Document Type: Article

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