Effectiveness of strategies to increase the validity of findings from association studies: Size vs. replication

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Weitkunat, Rolf ^a   Kaelin, Etienne ^a   Vuillaume, Grégory ^a   Kallischnigg, Gerd ^a  

^a R and D Philip Morris International ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 77952712284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-10-47     Document Type: Article

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