Case-sibling gene-association studies for diseases with variable age at onset

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 3697-3712

  Kraft, Peter ^a   Thomas, Duncan C ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Family studies; Genetic epidemiology; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIBLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE OF ONSET; BIOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PHENOTYPE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 9244235965     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1722     Document Type: Review

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