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The Inconvenience of Convenience Cohorts: Rhabdomyosarcoma and the PAX-FOXO1 Biomarker
1 Jul 2012
Abstract excerpt
"Convenience cohorts" comprise individuals thought to represent the general population, but chosen because they are readily available for evaluation, rather than at random. As such, these methods are subject to bias and may be misleading. Convenience cohorts have been used to investigate the prognostic significance of chromosomal translocations between the PAX3 or PAX7 and the FOXO1 genes in rhabdomyosarcoma, the...
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