Epidemiological and basic research activity targeting polyomaviruses

Statistical Research Design and Basic Techniques in Epidemiological Research

Epidemiology has been defined as the study of the distribution and determinants of disease frequency in human population and interpreting the observations. Epidemiology is a method of making and interpreting observations in biomedical investigations. These investigations deal with groups of people rather than individual cases and usually study both healthy and ill persons. Epidemiological resea...

Trends in basic, translational, epidemiological and therapeutic research in cancer.

Bayesian perspectives for epidemiological research: I. Foundations and basic methods.

One misconception (of many) about Bayesian analyses is that prior distributions introduce assumptions that are more questionable than assumptions made by frequentist methods; yet the assumptions in priors can be more reasonable than the assumptions implicit in standard frequentist models. Another misconception is that Bayesian methods are computationally difficult and require special software. ...

Targeting Thyroid Cancer Microenvironment: Basic Research and Clinical Applications

INTRODUCTION Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy and its incidence has increased considerably over the past few decades (1). This Research Topic is devoted to understanding the molecular mechanism of human thyroid cancer, with an emphasis on translation to the clinic. The original research papers assembled here probe the pathogenetic pathway from a wide range of approaches, i...

Basic and translational research

1Division of Rheumatology and Immunogenetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA 2Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA 3Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA 4Department of Medicine/ Rheumatolog...