Article
Using an Event-History with Risk-Free Model to Study the Genetics of Alcoholism.
Scientific reports - 16 May 2017
Yang Hsin-Chou, Chen I-Chen, Tsay Yuh-Chyuan, Li Zheng-Rong, Chen Chun-Houh, Hwu Hai-Gwo, Chen Chen-Hsin
Abstract excerpt
Case-control genetic association studies typically ignore possible later disease onset in currently healthy subjects and assume that subjects with diseases equally contribute to the likelihood for inference, regardless of their onset age. Therefore, we used an event-history with risk-free model to simultaneously characterize alcoholism susceptibility and onset age in 65 independent non-Hispanic Caucasian males in...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
