A cautionary note on the evaluation of biomarkers of subtypes of a single disease

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 559-562

  Adewale, Adeniyi J ^a   Liu, Qi ^b   Dinu, Irina ^b   Lampe, Paul D ^c   Mitchell, Bree L ^d   Yasui, Yutaka ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological markers; Classification problem; Conditional probability; Cross validation; Mass spectrometry; Misclassification

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BIOMARKER; CLASSIFICATION; HETEROGENEITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 51749124086     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn183     Document Type: Article

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