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ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2012

Invited commentary: GE-Whiz! Ratcheting gene-environment studies up to the whole genome and the whole exposome.

Duncan C Thomas, Juan Pablo Lewinger, Cassandra E Murcray, W James Gauderman

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Article in American journal of epidemiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Opportunities and Challenges for Environmental Exposure Assessment in Population-Based Studies.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2017
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  16. Candidate gene-environment interaction research: reflections and recommendations.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Duncan C ThomasDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. dthomas@usc.edu
Juan Pablo Lewinger
Cassandra E Murcray
W James Gauderman

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES007048 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ROB S MCCONNELL · 1996 to 2026
$46.4M
Urban Air Pollution and Children's Respiratory HealthP01ES011627 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI GAUDERMAN, WILLIAM JAMES · 2002 to 2011
$30.2M
The EVE Asthma Genetics Consortium: Building Upon GWASRC2HL101651 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI NICOLAE, DAN LIVIU, OBER, CAROLE · 2009 to 2010
$7.4M
A Genome-wide Association Study of Childhood Respiratory OutcomesR01HL087680 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI GAUDERMAN, WILLIAM JAMES · 2007 to 2009
$4.1M
Methods for Pathway Modeling with Application to FolateR01ES019876 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI THOMAS, DUNCAN C. · 2010 to 2014
$2.9M
FLEXIBLE MULTI-LEVEL MODELS FOR LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF CHILDHOOD OBESITYU01HD061968 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI BERHANE, KIROS T · 2009 to 2010
$795k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One goal in the post-genome-wide association study era is characterizing gene-environment interactions, including scanning for interactions with all available polymorphisms, not just those showing significant main effects. In recent years, several approaches to such "gene-environment-wide interaction studies" have been proposed. Two contributions in this issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology provide systematic comparisons of the performance of these various approaches, one based on simulation and one based on application to 2 real genome-wide association study scans for type 2 diabetes. The authors discuss some of the broader issues raised by these contributions, including the plausibility of the gene-environment independence assumption that some of these approaches rely upon, the need for replication, and various generalizations of these approaches.

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Body Mass IndexCase-Control StudiesGene-Environment InteractionGenome-Wide Association StudyDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2FemaleHumansMale

Identifiers

PMID22199029
PMCPMC3261438

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