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Leveraging Methylome-Environment Interaction to Detect Genetic Determinants of Disease.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2016
Slade Emily, Kraft Peter
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OBJECTIVE: The association between DNA methylation and a trait of interest may depend on an environmental exposure, and incorrectly accounting for this dependence can lead to a reduction in power of the standard tests used in epigenome-wide association studies. We present the M-ME test to jointly test for the main effect of DNA methylation and methylation-environment interaction. METHODS: Through simulation, we...
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