Comparing self-reported ethnicity to genetic background measures in the context of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

BACKGROUND: Questions remain regarding the utility of self-reported ethnicity (SRE) in genetic and epidemiologic research. It is not clear whether conditioning on SRE provides adequate protection from inflated type I error rates due to population stratification and admixture. We address this questio...

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Autores principales: Divers, Jasmin, Redden, David T, Rice, Kenneth M, Vaughan, Laura K, Padilla, Miguel A, Allison, David B, Bluemke, David A, Young, Hunter J, Arnett, Donna K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21375750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-12-28

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21375750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-12-28

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