Population-based family studies in genetic epidemiology.

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Designs that involve families (the traditional strength of genetic epidemiology) and population-based sampling (the traditional strength of environmental epidemiology) allow investigation of both genes and environment, separately or together, and allow valid inference to the population. These case-control-family designs (including those involving twin pairs), can be regarded as retrospective cohort studies of...

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