A novel approach to simulate gene-environment interactions in complex diseases

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Amato, Roberto ^a   Pinelli, Michele ^a,b   D'Andrea, Daniel ^a   Miele, Gennaro ^a,c   Nicodemi, Mario ^a,c,d   Raiconi, Giancarlo ^a,e   Cocozza, Sergio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare L Califano   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FACTOR; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH; MATHEMATICAL APPROACH; MULTI-LOGISTIC MODELING; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; GENES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISEASE CONTROL;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77349092838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-8     Document Type: Article

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