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Estimating interaction between genetic and environmental risk factors: efficiency of sampling designs within a cohort.
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Jan 2008
Bureau Alexandre, Diallo Mamadou S, Ordovas Jose M, Cupples L Adrienne
Abstract excerpt
Large prospective cohorts originally assembled to study environmental risk factors are increasingly exploited to study gene-environment interactions. Given the cost of genetic studies in large samples, being able to select a subsample for genotyping that contains most of the information from the cohort would lead to substantial savings. We consider nested case-control and case-cohort sampling designs with and...
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