Testing for measured gene-environment interaction: Problems with the use of cross-product terms and a regression model reparameterization solution

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 165-181

  Aliev, Fazil ^a,b   Latendresse, Shawn J ^a   Bacanu, Silviu Alin ^a   Neale, Michael C ^a   Dick, Danielle M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cross product; Environment; Genes; Modeling; Regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HOMOZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896397385     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-014-9642-1     Document Type: Article

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