Article
Efficient designs of gene-environment interaction studies: implications of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and gene-environment independence.
Statistics in medicine - 28 Sept 2012
Chen Jinbo, Kang Guolian, Vanderweele Tyler, Zhang Cuilin, Mukherjee Bhramar
Abstract excerpt
It is important to investigate whether genetic susceptibility variants exercise the same effects in populations that are differentially exposed to environmental risk factors. Here, we assess the power of four two-stage case-control design strategies for assessing multiplicative gene-environment (G-E) interactions or for assessing genetic or environmental effects in the presence of G-E interactions. We considered...
Topics
- Case-Control Studies
- Computer Simulation
- Data Interpretation, Statistical
- Gene-Environment Interaction
- Humans
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Research Design
