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. 2010 Nov;19(11):2710-4.
doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-10-0742. Epub 2010 Sep 24.

What can we learn about disease etiology from case-case analyses? Lessons from breast cancer

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What can we learn about disease etiology from case-case analyses? Lessons from breast cancer

María Elena Martínez et al. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Nov.
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Risk factor associations in the presence and absence of etiologic heterogeneity in breast cancer case-control and case-case analyses.

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