edited by Timothy R. Rebbeck, Christine B. Ambrosone, Peter G. Shields
New York :
Informa Healthcare,
c2008
xi, 302 p. :
ill. ;
26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Design considerations in molecular epidemiology / Montserrat García-Closas, Qing Lan, and Nathaniel Rothman -- Family-based study designs / Audrey H. Schnell and John S. Witte -- Trials and interventions in molecular epidemiology / James R. Marshall and Mary E. Reid -- Molecular epidemiological designs for prognosis / Cornelia M. Ulrich and Christine B. Ambrosone -- Biosampling methods / Regina M. Santella and Susan E. Hankinson -- Principles for high-quality genotyping / Stephen J. Chanock -- Biomarkers of exposure and effect / Christopher P. Wild -- Questionnaire assessment / James R. Marshall -- Pharmacogenetics in cancer chemotherapy / Xifeng Wu and Jian Gu -- Human genetic variation and its implication in understanding "race"/ethnicity and admixture / Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Indrani Halder, Mark Shriver --
Statistical approaches to studies of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions / Nilanjan Chatterjee and Bhramar Mukherjee -- Novel analytical methods for association studies / Jason H. Moore, Margaret R. Karagas, and Angeline S. Andrew -- Pathway-based methods in molecular cancer epidemiology / Fritz F. Parl, Philip S. Crooke, David V. Conti, and Duncan C. Thomas -- Haplotype association analysis / Peter Kraft and Jinbo Chen -- Genomewide association studies / Michael B. Bracken, Andrew DeWan, and Josephine Hoh -- Validation and confirmation of associations / John P.A. Ioannidis -- Models of absolute risk : interpretation, estimation, validation, and application / Mitchell H. Gail -- Reporting and interpreting results / Julian Little