Methods for assessing familial aggregation: Family history measures and confounding in the standard cohort, reconstructed cohort and case-control designs

Human Heredity

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 201-208

  Zimmerman, Regina ^a,b   Pal, Deb K ^d   Tin, Adrienne ^b   Ahsan, Habibul ^a   Greenberg, David A ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Confounding; Epidemiology; Family history; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FAMILY SIZE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FAMILY HEALTH; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66749155943     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000224640     Document Type: Article

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