Turning the pump handle: Evolving methods for integrating the evidence on gene-disease association

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 166, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 863-866

  Higgins, Julian P T ^a,t   Little, Julian ^b   Ioannidis, John P A ^c,e   Bray, Molly S ^d   Manolio, Teri A ^f   Smeeth, Liam ^g   Sterne, Jonathan A ^h   Anagnostelis, Betsy ⁱ   Butterworth, Adam S ^j   Danesh, John ^j   Dezateux, Carol ^k   Gallacher, John E ^l   Gwinn, Marta ^m   Lewis, Sarah J ^h   Minelli, Cosetta ⁿ   Pharoah, Paul D ^j   Salanti, Georgia ^c   Sanderson, Simon ^j   Smith, Lesley A ^o   Taioli, Emanuela ^p   Thompson, John R ^q   Thompson, Simon G ^a   Walker, Neil ^r   Zimmern, Ron L ^s   Khoury, Muin J ^m   more..

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^l CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^m NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

ⁿ NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^o OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^s PHG FOUNDATION   (United Kingdom)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; COMMUNITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

DATABASES, GENETIC; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTERNET; NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 34848900465     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwm248     Document Type: Editorial

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