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Using risk-based sampling to enrich cohorts for endpoints, genes, and exposures.
American journal of epidemiology - 15 Aug 2007
Weinberg Clarice R, Shore David L, Umbach David M, Sandler Dale P
Abstract excerpt
Targeting the first-degree relatives of people with a particular complex disease can offer a powerful approach to building a risk-based cohort for prospective studies of etiologic factors. Such a cohort provides both a sizable increase in the rate of accrual of newly incident cases, enriching for risk factors that are known or even unknown, and a high level of motivation among participants. A nationwide study of...
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