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[Use of case-parents trio for epidemiological studies of association between genetic polymorphisms and complex diseases].
Revista medica de Chile - 1 Nov 2002
Santos José Luis, Pérez Francisco, Carrasco Elena, Albala Cecilia
Abstract excerpt
In case-control studies, spurious associations between allelic variants in candidate genes and disease may arise as a result of population stratification by ethnicity. In epidemiological terms, the ethnic group would act as a confounding factor if both the genotype frequency and the incidence/pre...
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