Thinking big: Large-scale collaborative research in observational epidemiology

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 727-731

  Thompson, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Consortia; Individual participant data; Meta analysis; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; HORMONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; LIVER; METABOLISM; NOTE; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; TREND STUDY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; OBSERVATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 73449107423     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-009-9412-1     Document Type: Note

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