The impact of truncation and missing family links in population-based registers on familial risk estimates

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 166, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1461-1467

  Leu, Monica ^a   Czene, Kamila ^a   Reilly, Marie ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bias (epidemiology); Familial risk; Medical record linkage; Missing data; Registries

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY STRUCTURE; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; REGISTER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; SWEDEN;

EID: 36749083972     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwm234     Document Type: Article

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