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Relative Risk (RR)

Definition
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Relative risk is the ratio of event probabilities between two groups, such as carriers versus non-carriers of an allele.

Topics
Epidemiology
Related
Cohort Hazard Ratio (HR) Measure of Effect

Why it matters in GWAS

Relative risk is often easier to interpret than odds ratio because it operates on probabilities rather than odds. It cannot usually be estimated directly from a standard case-control sample, so analysts need to distinguish which effect measure was actually reported.

Example usage

"Carriers of the risk allele had RR = 1.30 for incident disease over the follow-up period."

Cohort Hazard Ratio (HR) Measure of Effect Odds Ratio (OR) Risk Stratification
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References

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