Are randomized trials obsolete or more important than ever in the genomic era?

Affiliations

¹ Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine and Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1265 Welch Road, MSOB X306, Stanford, CA 94305, USA ; Department of Statistics, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
² Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA ; Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20892, USA.

John Pa Ioannidis et al. Genome Med. 2013.

. 2013 Apr 18;5(4):32.

doi: 10.1186/gm436. eCollection 2013.

¹ Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine and Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1265 Welch Road, MSOB X306, Stanford, CA 94305, USA ; Department of Statistics, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
² Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA ; Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20892, USA.

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