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The impact of diagnostic error on testing genetic association in case-control studies.
Statistics in medicine - 30 Mar 2005
Zheng Gang, Tian Xin
Abstract excerpt
In case-control studies, subjects in the case group may be recruited from suspected patients who are diagnosed positively with disease. While many statistical methods have been developed for measurement error or misclassification of exposure variables in epidemiological studies, no studies have been reported on the effect of errors in diagnosing disease on testing genetic association in case-control studies. We...
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