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Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset diseases in cohort studies.
Lifetime data analysis - 1 Sept 2002
Glickman Mark E, Gagnon David R
Abstract excerpt
Many late-onset diseases are caused by what appears to be a combination of a genetic predisposition to disease and environmental factors. The use of existing cohort studies provides an opportunity to infer genetic predisposition to disease on a representative sample of a study population, now that many such studies are gathering genetic information on the participants. One feature to using existing cohorts is...
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