Inference about causation from examination of familial confounding: Application to longitudinal twin data on mammographic density measures that predict breast cancer risk

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1149-1155

  Stone, Jennifer ^a   Dite, Gillian S ^a   Giles, Graham G ^c   Cawson, Jennifer ^b   English, Dallas R ^a   Hopper, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RISK; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; ZYGOSITY;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84863562624     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-12-0051     Document Type: Article

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