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The novel "genomic pathway approach" to complex diseases: a reason for (over-)optimism?
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Jul 2009
Breitling Lutz P, Steyerberg Ewout W, Brenner Hermann
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BACKGROUND: Examination of the genetic structure of complex diseases by a "genomic pathway approach"--which applies stepwise model selection to sets of more than 1000 polymorphisms in studies of several hundred subjects--has recently been proposed. Models constructed through extensive selection procedures may yield misleading test statistics and measures of predictive performance; we aimed to quantify the extent...
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