A systematic appraisal of field synopses in genetic epidemiology: A HuGE review

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-16

  Belbasis, Lazaros ^a   Panagiotou, Orestis A ^b   Dosis, Vasilios ^a   Evangelou, Evangelos ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic methods; Field synopsis; Genetic associations; Genetic epidemiology; Genome, human; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CITATION ANALYSIS; FIELD SYNOPSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; BIBLIOMETRICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PUBLISHING; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIBLIOMETRICS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PUBLICATION BIAS;

EID: 84922473314     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu249     Document Type: Review

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