Using risk-based sampling to enrich cohorts for endpoints, genes, and exposures

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 447-455

  Weinberg, Clarice R ^a   Shore, David L ^b   Umbach, David M ^a   Sandler, Dale P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b WESTAT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Disease susceptibility; Genes; Prospective studies; Risk; Sampling studies

Indexed keywords

CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETIOLOGY; GENE; GENETIC VARIATION; RISK FACTOR; WOMENS HEALTH;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL GENETICS; MOTIVATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PUERTO RICO; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BASED SAMPLING; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; SIBLING; UNITED STATES;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SIBLINGS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; NORTH AMERICA; PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547664629     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwm097     Document Type: Article

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