Article
Distinct explanations underlie gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank.
American journal of human genetics - 6 Mar 2025
Durvasula Arun, Price Alkes L
Abstract excerpt
The role of gene-environment (GxE) interaction in disease and complex trait architectures is widely hypothesized but currently unknown. Here, we apply three statistical approaches to quantify and distinguish three different types of GxE interaction for a given trait and environmental (E) variable. First, we detect locus-specific GxE interaction by testing for genetic correlation (rg) < 1 across E bins. Second, we...
Topics
- Humans
- Gene-Environment Interaction
- United Kingdom
- Biological Specimen Banks
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Female
- Male
- Multifactorial Inheritance
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Phenotype
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
