Exploiting gene-environment interaction to detect genetic associations

Human Heredity

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 111-119

  Kraft, Peter ^a   Yen, Yu Chun ^a   Stram, Daniel O ^b   Morrison, John ^b   Gauderman, W James ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene environment interaction; Genome wide association scans; Power and sample size calculations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PENETRANCE; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33847059098     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099183     Document Type: Article

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