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Individual response to treatment: is it a valid assumption?
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     1 Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ stephen@stats.gla.ac.uk

    Most drug trials assume that patients respond consistently to treatment, but the assumption is rarely tested. If patients vary randomly in their response to a drug rather than some patients never responding, searches for a genetic basis for non-response are futile

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