Genetic association research: Understanding its challenges and limitations

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 762-763

  Hobson, Michael J ^a   Wong, Hector R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute lung injury; biological plausibility; candidate gene association studies; community acquired pneumonia; gene association studies; single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 78649494751     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181d503e7     Document Type: Editorial

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