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Activity Number: 87 - Invited ePoster Session: a Statistical Smörgåsbord
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Sunday, July 29, 2018 : 8:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Abstract #329798
Title: A Grouped Weighted Quantile Regression Approach to Modeling Environmental Chemical Mixtures and Childhood Leukemia Risk
Author(s): David C. Wheeler*
Companies: Virginia Commonwealth University
Keywords: exposure; cancer; mixture; environment; chemicals; epidemiology
Abstract:

Individuals are exposed to a large number of diverse environmental chemicals simultaneously and evaluation of multiple exposures is important for identifying cancer risk factors. Increasingly, exposures are being measured for a large number of chemicals in epidemiological studies to allow for a more comprehensive assessment of environmental cancer risk factors. Traditional statistical methods used in existing studies are significantly challenged by the strong correlation observed among chemical exposures. Hence, there is a need for development and assessment of statistical methods to model environmental chemical cancer risk that consider a large number of diverse and correlated chemicals with different effects for different chemical classes. The aim of this research was to develop a grouped weighted quantile regression model for a case-control study of childhood leukemia in California that contains concentrations measured for a large number of chemicals of different classes. Childhood leukemia is a cancer with an unclear etiology and suspected environmental risk factors. We used different indices for different chemical classes in the model to allow for heterogeneity in effects.


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