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Flexible design for following up positive findings.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 2007
Yu Kai, Chatterjee Nilanjan, Wheeler William, Li Qizhai, Wang Sophia, Rothman Nathaniel, Wacholder Sholom
Abstract excerpt
As more population-based studies suggest associations between genetic variants and disease risk, there is a need to improve the design of follow-up studies (stage II) in independent samples to confirm evidence of association observed at the initial stage (stage I). We propose to use flexible designs developed for randomized clinical trials in the calculation of sample size for follow-up studies. We apply a...
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