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Assessing the quality of case-control association studies on the genetic basis of sepsis.
Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies - 1 May 2005
Vitali Sally H, Randolph Adrienne G
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OBJECTIVE: To define methodological standards that would improve the quality and reproducibility of case-control genetic association studies in sepsis. DESIGN: Summary of the published standards. RESULTS: Twelve main criteria and measures for evaluation of those criteria were developed from a variety of reviews and editorials on the subject. CONCLUSIONS: Case-control candidate gene association studies represent...
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