Systematic Reviews of Genetic Association Studies

Gurdeep S. Sagoo and colleagues describe key components of the methodology for undertaking systematic reviews and meta-analyses of genetic association studies.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2009-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000028PMID 19260758PMCID 2650724
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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