Article
General epistatic models of the risk of complex diseases.
Genetics - 1 Dec 2010
Song Yun S, Wang Fulton, Slatkin Montgomery
Abstract excerpt
The range of possible gene interactions in a multilocus model of a complex inherited disease is studied by exploring genotype-specific risks subject to the constraint that the allele frequencies and marginal risks are known. We quantify the effect of gene interactions by defining the interaction ratio, CR=KR/KRI, where KR is the recurrence risk to relatives with relationship R for the true model and KRI is the...
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- Alleles
- Epistasis, Genetic
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Models, Genetic
