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The surprising implications of familial association in disease risk

BACKGROUND: A wide range of diseases show some degree of clustering in families; family history is therefore an important aspect for clinicians when making risk predictions. Familial aggregation is often quantified in terms of a familial relative risk (FRR), and although at first glance this measure...

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Autores principales: Valberg, Morten, Stensrud, Mats Julius, Aalen, Odd O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29334951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5033-5