Cancer Institute A national cancer institute
designated cancer center

Esther M. John

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  • The potential value of sibling controls compared with population controls for association studies of lifestyle-related risk factors: an example from the Breast Cancer Family Registry.

    Milne RL, John EM, Knight JA, Dite GS, Southey MC, Giles GG, Apicella C, West DW, Andrulis IL, Whittemore AS, Hopper JL. Int J Epidemiol. 2011; 40 (5): 1342-54

    A previous Australian population-based breast cancer case-control study found indirect evidence that control participation, although high, was not random. We hypothesized that unaffected sisters may provide a more appropriate comparison group than unrelated population controls.

    PubMedID: 21771852

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