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Measures of familial aggregation as predictors of breast-cancer risk.
Journal of epidemiology and biostatistics - 1 Jan 2001
Boucher K M, Kerber R A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Several measures of familial disease aggregation have been proposed, but only a few of these are designed to be implemented at the individual level. We evaluate two of them in the context of breast-cancer incidence. METHODS: A population-based cohort consisting of 114 429 women born between 1874 and 1931 and at risk for breast cancer after 1965 was identified by linking the Utah Population Data Base...
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