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A Candidate-Pathway Approach to Identify Gene-Environment Interactions: Analyses of Colon Cancer Risk and Survival.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute - 1 Sept 2015
Sharafeldin Noha, Slattery Martha L, Liu Qi, Franco-Villalobos Conrado, Caan Bette J, Potter John D, Yasui Yutaka
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BACKGROUND: Genetic association studies have traditionally focused on associations between individual single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and disease. Standard analysis ignores interactions between multiple SNPs and environmental exposures explaining a small portion of disease heritability: the often-cited issue of "missing heritability." METHODS: We present a novel three-step analytic framework for modeling...
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