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Exposure Enriched Case-Control (EECC) Design for the Assessment of Gene-Environment Interaction.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Nov 2016
Huque Md Hamidul, Carroll Raymond J, Diao Nancy, Christiani David C, Ryan Louise M
Abstract excerpt
Genetic susceptibility and environmental exposure both play an important role in the aetiology of many diseases. Case-control studies are often the first choice to explore the joint influence of genetic and environmental factors on the risk of developing a rare disease. In practice, however, such studies may have limited power, especially when susceptibility genes are rare and exposure distributions are highly...
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