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Cost-effective analysis of genotyping using oral cells in the geriatric population.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 21 Sept 2010
Juárez-Cedillo T, Sánchez-García S, Mould-Quevedo J F, García-Peña C, Gallo J J, Wagner F A, Vargas-Alarcón G
Abstract excerpt
We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of using buccal swab brushes in comparison with blood samples for obtaining DNA for large epidemiological studies of the elderly population. The data reported here are from the third phase of the Integral Study of Depression among the Elderly in Mexico City's Mexican Institute of Social Security, conducted in 2007. The total cost of the two procedures was determined. The...
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