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Estimating risk curves for first-degree relatives of patients with Alzheimer's disease: the REVEAL study.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Jan 2000
Cupples L Adrienne, Farrer Lindsay A, Sadovnick A Dessa, Relkin Norman, Whitehouse Peter, Green Robert C
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PURPOSE: The REVEAL study is a randomized, controlled study of the psychological and behavioral impact of APOE disclosure in a risk assessment protocol provided to first degree relatives of patients with Alzheimer's disease. The protocol presents risk information as cumulative incidence curves. This article describes how these curves were estimated. METHODS: Curves were calculated using Bayes' rule to compute the...
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