Article
Non-hierarchical logistic models and case-only designs for assessing susceptibility in population-based case-control studies.
Statistics in medicine - 30 Jan 1994
Piegorsch W W, Weinberg C R, Taylor J A
Abstract excerpt
This article describes how genetic components of disease susceptibility can be evaluated in case-control studies, where cases and controls are sampled independently from the population at large. Subjects are assumed unrelated, in contrast to studies of familial aggregation and linkage. The logist...
Topics
- Biomarkers
- Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
- Case-Control Studies
- Environmental Exposure
- Family
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Humans
- Logistic Models
- Lung Neoplasms
- Occupational Exposure