A hybrid design: Case-parent triads supplemented by control-mother dyads

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-144

  Vermeulen, Sita H ^a   Shi, Min ^b   Weinberg, Clarice R ^b   Umbach, David M ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Association studies; Early onset disease; Family based design; Genetic relative risk; Maternal effect; Poisson regression; Population based design; Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE PARENT TRIAD; CONTROL MOTHER DYAD; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; POWER ANALYSIS; PROGENY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING ERROR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER; PARENT; POPULATION GENETICS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHERS; PARENTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 63449091356     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20365     Document Type: Article

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