Reporting of systematic reviews: The challenge of genetic association studies [1]

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1129-

  Khoury, Muin J ^a   Little, Julian ^b   Higgins, Julian ^c   Ioannidis, John P A ^d   Gwinn, Marta ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NOTE; PUBLISHING; STANDARD;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 34347228198     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040211     Document Type: Letter

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