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Inclusion of risk factor covariates in a segregation analysis of a population-based sample of 426 breast cancer families.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1999
Grabrick D M, Anderson V E, King R A, Kushi L H, Sellers T A
Abstract excerpt
Although many segregation analyses of breast cancer have been published, few have included risk factor covariates. Maximum likelihood segregation analyses examining age-at-onset (model 1) and susceptibility (model 2) models of breast cancer were performed on 426 four-generation families originally ascertained between 1944 and 1952 through a breast cancer proband. Cancer status and risk factor data were collected...
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