Costs and benefits of environmental data in investigations of gene-disease associations

The inclusion of environmental exposure data may be beneficial, in terms of statistical power, to investigation of gene-disease association when it exists. However, resources invested in obtaining exposure data could instead be applied to measure disease status and genotype on more subjects. In a co...

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Main Author: Luo, Hao
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43080