Genome-wide meta-analysis of joint tests for genetic and gene-environment interaction effects

Human Heredity

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 292-300

  Aschard, Hugues ^a   Hancock, Dana B ^b   London, Stephanie J ^b   Kraft, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control association analysis; Complex disease; Gene environment interaction; Genome wide scan; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PROCESSES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 79551567086     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000323318     Document Type: Article

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