Reporting of Human Genome Epidemiology (HuGE) association studies: An empirical assessment

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Yesupriya, Ajay ^a   Evangelou, Evangelos ^b   Kavvoura, Fotini K ^b   Patsopoulos, Nikolaos A ^b   Clyne, Melinda ^a   Walsh, Matthew C ^c   Lin, Bruce K ^d   Yu, Wei ^a   Gwinn, Marta ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^b   Khoury, Muin J ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN GENOME; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOME; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; REVIEW;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS;

EID: 44949239431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-8-31     Document Type: Article

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