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Adjustment for competing risk in kin-cohort estimation.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Dec 2003
Chatterjee Nilanjan, Hartge Patricia, Wacholder Sholom
Abstract excerpt
Kin-cohort design can be used to study the effect of a genetic mutation on the risk of multiple events, using the same study. In this design, the outcome data consist of the event history of the relatives of a sample of genotyped subjects. Existing methods for kin-cohort estimation allow estimation of the risk of one event at a time with the assumption that the censoring events are unrelated to the genetic...
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