Article
Population and familial relative risks of disease associated with environmental factors in the presence of gene-environment interaction.
American journal of epidemiology - 1 Jun 1993
Khoury M J, James L M
Abstract excerpt
With increasing availability of polymorphic DNA markers, family studies can be used to identify linked susceptibility genes for chronic diseases. Nevertheless, in the presence of gene-environment interaction, the ability of family studies to detect associations between exposures and diseases has not been adequately compared with population studies. The authors derive and compare exposure relative risk measures...
Topics
- Alleles
- Environmental Exposure
- Family
- Gene Frequency
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Humans
- Models, Genetic
- Risk Factors
