Analysis of case-parental control studies: method for the study of associations between disease and genetic markers.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008982

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Analysis of case-parental control studies: method for the study of associations between disease and genetic markers.

American journal of epidemiology - 1 Oct 1996

Flanders W D, Khoury M J

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Case-control studies using parents of case subjects as the control subjects provide an innovative way to study associations of genetic markers with disease risk. This approach, sometimes called the haplotype-relative risk method, has received recent attention because the use of parents as control...

Topics

Alleles
Case-Control Studies
Confidence Intervals
Epidemiologic Methods
Female
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Genetic Markers
Genotype
Humans
Male
Molecular Epidemiology
Odds Ratio
Parents
Risk Factors

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