… Letting D be an indicator of disease, we consider true penetrance models of the form … , and
fb,q (D,G,E) is the expected fraction of the data with disease status D, genotype coding G and …

… Most of the epidemiologic literature on this topic has been concerned with a binary disease
outcome d or censored survival times (t,d), although many of the same principles apply to …

… for approximately 400 d using 137 Cs gamma rays at dose rates of 21, 1.1 and 0.05 mGy d
−1 … irradiated with 21 mGy d −1 (p < 0.0001) and of females irradiated with 1.1 mGy d −1 (p < …

Background Children with high-risk neuroblastoma have a poor outcome. In this study, we
assessed whether myeloablative therapy in conjunction with transplantation of autologous …

… , undifferentiated and poorly differentiated subtype diagnosed between ages 1.5–5 years;
(c) neuroblastoma with intermediate MKI diagnosed between ages 1.5–5 years; (d) …

… In the linear mixed effects model, the primary constraint upon the parameters is that D, the
… of D, ie, hypotheses of the form di = 0, where di is the (i,]j)th element of D, place D on the …

Results are presented from a second cross-sectional assessment of the association of air
pollution with chronic respiratory health of children participating in the Six Cities Study of

A cohort of 1,678 Southern California children, enrolled as fourth graders in 1996, was
followed for 4 years to determine whether the growth in lung function of the children was …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have laid the foundation for investigations into the
biology of complex traits, drug development and clinical guidelines. However, the majority …

The authors describe the design and implementation of a large multiethnic cohort established
to study diet and cancer in the United States. They detail the source of the subjects, …