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Local literature bias in genetic epidemiology: an empirical evaluation of the Chinese literature.
PLoS medicine - 1 Dec 2005
Pan Zhenglun, Trikalinos Thomas A, Kavvoura Fotini K, Lau Joseph, Ioannidis John P A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Postulated epidemiological associations are subject to several biases. We evaluated whether the Chinese literature on human genome epidemiology may offer insights on the operation of selective reporting and language biases. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We targeted 13 gene-disease associations, each already assessed by meta-analyses, including at least 15 non-Chinese studies. We searched the Chinese Journal...
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