Gene by environment interaction and asthma.

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The term interaction has two specific meanings in epidemiology. The first definition is purely a statistical one. Interaction is defined as the coefficient of the product term of two or more risk factors. An alternative definition is a more biologically oriented one in which interaction between two risk factors is defined as their coparticipation in the same causal mechanism of disease development. There are at...

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