A doubly robust test for gene-environment interaction in family-based studies of affected offspring

Biostatistics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 213-225

  Moerkerke, Beatrijs ^a   Vansteelandt, Stijn ^a   Lange, Christoph ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Double robustness; Effect modification; Gene environment interaction; Genetic association; Nuclear family; Semiparametric interaction model

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

AGE; ALGORITHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; ALPHA-MACROGLOBULINS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 77749264302     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxp061     Document Type: Article

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