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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical investigation2009

STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association studies (STREGA)--an extension of the STROBE statement.

Julian Little, Julian P T Higgins, John P A Ioannidis, David Moher, France Gagnon, Erik von Elm, Muin J Khoury, Barbara Cohen, George Davey-Smith, Jeremy Grimshaw and 20 more

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Article in European journal of clinical investigation, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 96 papers, 14 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

96 citing papers in PubMed, 14 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Imaging genetics paradigms in depression research: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2018
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  11. Estrogen receptor alpha gene polymorphisms and risk of prostate cancer: a meta-analysis involving 18 studies.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2014
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  16. Investigating the Association of Genetic Markers, Previously Identified by Genome-Wide Association Studies, With ACL Rupture in Multiple Cohorts.Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

30 authors.

Julian LittleCanada Research Chair in Human Genome Epidemiology, Ottawa, ON, Canada. jlittle@uottawa.ca
Julian P T Higgins
John P A Ioannidis
David Moher
France Gagnon
Erik von Elm
Muin J Khoury
Barbara Cohen
George Davey-Smith
Jeremy Grimshaw
Paul Scheet
Marta Gwinn
Robin E Williamson
Guang Yong Zou
Kim Hutchings
Candice Y Johnson
Valerie Tait
Miriam Wiens
Jean Golding
Cornelia van Duijn
John McLaughlin
Andrew Paterson
George Wells
Isabel Fortier
Matthew Freedman
Maja Zecevic
Richard King
Claire Infante-Rivard
Alex Stewart
Nick Birkett

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U105285807
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Making sense of rapidly evolving evidence on genetic associations is crucial to making genuine advances in human genomics and the eventual integration of this information in the practice of medicine and public health. Assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of this evidence, and hence the ability to synthesize it, has been limited by inadequate reporting of results. The STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association studies (STREGA) initiative builds on the STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement and provides additions to 12 of the 22 items on the STROBE checklist. The additions concern population stratification, genotyping errors, modelling haplotype variation, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, replication, selection of participants, rationale for choice of genes and variants, treatment effects in studying quantitative traits, statistical methods, relatedness, reporting of descriptive and outcome data and the volume of data issues that are important to consider in genetic association studies. The STREGA recommendations do not prescribe or dictate how a genetic association study should be designed, but seek to enhance the transparency of its reporting, regardless of choices made during design, conduct or analysis.

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Genetic ResearchGuidelines as TopicDiseaseGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansPublishingResearch Design

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PMID19297801
PMCPMC2730482

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