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Alzheimer Disease
Studies conducted at University of Michigan on Alzheimer disease recently published
May 12th, 2008
In this recent article published in the journal Genetics in Medicine, scientists in the United States conducted a study "To describe how investigators in a multisite randomized clinical trial addressed scientific and ethical issues involved in creating risk models based on genetic testing for African American participants. The following informed our decision whether to stratify risk assessment by ethnicity: evaluation of epidemiological data, appraisal of benefits and risks of incorporating ethnicity into calculations, and feasibility of creating ethnicity-specific risk curves." "Once the decision was made, risk curves were created based on data from a large,...
Source: Biotech Business Week (2008-05-12)
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