Barely Significant
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Fulfilling the promise of personalized medicine? Systematic review and field synopsis of pharmacogenetic studies.

PLoS One · 2009 · PMC2778625 · PMID 19956635

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There was predominantly a candidate gene approach using common alleles, which despite small sample sizes (median 93 [IQR 40–222]) with no trend to an increase over time, generated a high proportion (74.5%) of nominally significant (p<0.05) reported associations suggesting the possibility of significance-chasing bias.

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