Strengthening the reporting of genetic association studies (STREGA)—an extension of the strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) statement

J Little, JPT Higgins, JPA Ioannidis, D Moher, F Gagnon, E von Elm, MJ Khoury, B Cohen, G Davey Smith, J Grimshaw, P Scheet, M Gwinn, RE Williamson, GY Zou, K Hutchings, CY Johnson, V Tait, M Wiens, J Golding, C van DuijnJ McLaughlin, A Paterson, G Wells, I Fortier, M Freeman, M Zecevic, R King, C Infante-Rivard, A Stewart, N Birket

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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 (STREGA) studies 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, modeling 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.
Translated title of the contributionStrengthening the reporting of genetic association studies (STREGA)—an extension of the strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) statement
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)597 - 608
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume62 (6)
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2009

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