The Liptak-Stouffer test for meta-analyses

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2015, Pages e1-e2

  Laoutidis, Zacharias G ^a   Luckhaus, Christian ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; EFFECT SIZE; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LETTER; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TANDEM REPEAT; ALLELE; CHILD ABUSE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; LIFE EVENT; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ALLELES; CHILD ABUSE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84920720096     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.11.033     Document Type: Letter

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