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doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020409.
Epub 2005 Nov 22.
Selection bias in meta-analyses of gene-disease associations
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Selection bias in meta-analyses of gene-disease associations
PLoS Med.
2005 Dec.
Abstract
Jin-Ling Tang discusses the issues arising from Ioannidis and colleagues' paper on biases in the Chinese genetic epidemiology literature, and possible solutions
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Local literature bias in genetic epidemiology: an empirical evaluation of the Chinese literature.PLoS Med. 2005 Dec;2(12):e334. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020334. Epub 2005 Nov 22. PLoS Med. 2005. PMID: 16285839 Free PMC article.
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