Investigations of gene-disease associations: Costs and benefits of environmental data

Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 562-568

  Luo, Hao ^a   Burstyn, Igor ^b   Gustafson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84879888787     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182944dd5     Document Type: Article

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