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Parent-child pair design for detecting gene-environment interactions in complex diseases.
Human genetics - 1 Jul 2007
Tan Yuan-De, Fornage Myriam, George Varghese, Xu Hongyan
Abstract excerpt
It is becoming clear that the etiology of complex diseases involves not only genetic and environmental factors but also gene-environment (GE) interactions. Therefore, it is important to take account of all these factors to improve the power of an epidemiological study design. We propose here a novel parent-child pair (PCP) design for this purpose. In comparison with conventional designs, this approach has the...
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