Environmental confounding in gene-environment interaction studies

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 144-152

  Vander Weele, Tyler J ^a   Ko, Yi An ^b   Mukherjee, Bhramar ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

case control; case only; confounding; gene environment; interaction; joint tests; marginal genetic association

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE;

CASE-CONTROL; CASE-ONLY; CONFOUNDING; GENE-ENVIRONMENT; INTERACTION; JOINT TESTS; MARGINAL GENETIC ASSOCIATION;

BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84880226254     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws439     Document Type: Article

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