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Identification of pharmacogenetic markers in smoking cessation therapy.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Sept 2008
Heitjan Daniel F, Guo Mengye, Ray Riju, Wileyto E Paul, Epstein Leonard H, Lerman Caryn
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Pharmacogenetic clinical trials seek to identify genetic modifiers of treatment effects. When a trial has collected data on many potential genetic markers, a first step in analysis is to screen for evidence of pharmacogenetic effects by testing for treatment-by-marker interactions in a statistical model for the outcome of interest. This approach is potentially problematic because (i) individual significance tests...
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