Use of latent class models to accommodate inter-laboratory variation in assessing genetic polymorphisms associated with disease risk

BMC Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Walter, Stephen D ^a   Franco, Eduardo L ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MARKER GENE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; LABORATORY; OBSERVER VARIATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

PROTEIN P53;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 52249087980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-9-51     Document Type: Article

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