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Three Approaches to Modeling Gene-Environment Interactions in Longitudinal Family Data: Gene-Smoking Interactions in Blood Pressure.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 2016
Basson Jacob, Sung Yun Ju, de las Fuentes Lisa, Schwander Karen L, Vazquez Ana, Rao Dabeeru C
Abstract excerpt
Blood pressure (BP) has been shown to be substantially heritable, yet identified genetic variants explain only a small fraction of the heritability. Gene-smoking interactions have detected novel BP loci in cross-sectional family data. Longitudinal family data are available and have additional promise to identify BP loci. However, this type of data presents unique analysis challenges. Although several methods for...
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