Establishment of genetic associations for complex disease is independent of early study findings

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 762-769

  Trikalinos, Thomas A ^a,b   Ntzani, Evangelia E ^a   Contopoulos Ioannidis, Despina G ^a,c   Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bias; Genetic variation; Meta analysis; Methodology; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL GENETICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CAUSALITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PUBLICATION BIAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4644247719     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201227     Document Type: Article

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