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Detection of gene-environment interactions in joint segregation and linkage analysis.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Nov 1997
Gauderman W J, Faucett C L
Abstract excerpt
We compare approaches for analysis of gene-environment (G x E) interaction, using segregation and joint segregation and linkage analyses of a quantitative trait. Analyses of triglyceride levels in a single large pedigree demonstrate the two methods and show evidence for a significant interaction (P=.015 when segregation analysis is used; P=.006 when joint analysis is used) between a codominant major gene and...
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