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Sample size requirements to detect gene-environment interactions in genome-wide association studies.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Apr 2011
Murcray Cassandra E, Lewinger Juan Pablo, Conti David V, Thomas Duncan C, Gauderman W James
Abstract excerpt
Many complex diseases are likely to be a result of the interplay of genes and environmental exposures. The standard analysis in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) scans for main effects and ignores the potentially useful information in the available exposure data. Two recently proposed methods that exploit environmental exposure information involve a two-step analysis aimed at prioritizing the large number of...
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