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Submitted on November 20, 2007
Accepted on December 11, 2007

Advances in Population Studies 2007

George Howard DrPH^* and Valery Feigin PhD

From the Department of Biostatistics (G.H.), UAB School of Public Health, Birmingham, Ala, USA; and the Clinical Trials Research Unit (V.F.), School of Population Health, the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ghoward{at}uab.edu.

Key words: epidemiology • genetics • population studies • risk factors • stroke