A Neighborhood-Wide Association Study (NWAS): Example of prostate cancer aggressiveness.

PURPOSE:Cancer results from complex interactions of multiple variables at the biologic, individual, and social levels. Compared to other levels, social effects that occur geospatially in neighborhoods are not as well-studied, and empiric methods to assess these effects are limited. We propose a nove...

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Main Authors: Shannon M Lynch, Nandita Mitra, Michelle Ross, Craig Newcomb, Karl Dailey, Tara Jackson, Charnita M Zeigler-Johnson, Harold Riethman, Charles C Branas, Timothy R Rebbeck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5367705?pdf=render