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Methods for testing familial aggregation of diseases in population-based samples: application to Hodgkin lymphoma in Swedish registry data.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Sept 2004
Pfeiffer R M, Goldin L R, Chatterjee N, Daugherty S, Hemminki K, Pee D, X L I, Gail M H
Abstract excerpt
We use data on lymphoma in families of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) cases from the Swedish Family Cancer Database (Hemminki et al. 2001) to illustrate survival methods for detecting familial aggregation in first degree relatives of case probands compared to first degree relatives of control probands, from registries that permit sampling of all cases. Because more than one case may occur in a given family, the first...
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