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ArticleStatistics in medicine2018

Dissecting gene-environment interactions: A penalized robust approach accounting for hierarchical structures.

Cen Wu, Yu Jiang, Jie Ren, Yuehua Cui, Shuangge Ma

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Article in Statistics in medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. High-Dimensional Gene-Environment Interaction Analysis.Annual review of statistics and its application · 2025
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  6. Gene-environment interaction analysis under the Cox model.Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics · 2023
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  13. Gene-environment interaction identification via penalized robust divergence.Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift · 2022
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  14. A scalable hierarchical lasso for gene-environment interactions.Journal of computational and graphical statistics : a joint publication of American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Interface Foundation of North America · 2022
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  17. Gene-Environment Interaction: A Variable Selection Perspective.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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  19. Impact of Gene-Environment Interactions on Cancer Development.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Cen WuDepartment of Statistics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5172-141X
Yu JiangDivision of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38111, USA.
Jie RenDepartment of Statistics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.
Yuehua CuiDepartment of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, 619 Red Cedar Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
Shuangge MaDepartment of Biostatistics, Yale University, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9001-4999
Kansas State University · USMichigan State University · USUniversity of Memphis · USYale University · US

Funding

Novel methods for identifying genetic interactions in cancer prognosisR01CA204120 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Shuangge Ma · 2016 to 2026
$3.5M
Penalization methods for identifying gene envrionment interactions and applications to melanoma and other cancer typesR21CA191383 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MA, SHUANGGE · 2015 to 2017
$435k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA204120NCI NIH HHS R21 CA191383
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identification of gene-environment (G × E) interactions associated with disease phenotypes has posed a great challenge in high-throughput cancer studies. The existing marginal identification methods have suffered from not being able to accommodate the joint effects of a large number of genetic variants, while some of the joint-effect methods have been limited by failing to respect the "main effects, interactions" hierarchy, by ignoring data contamination, and by using inefficient selection techniques under complex structural sparsity. In this article, we develop an effective penalization approach to identify important G × E interactions and main effects, which can account for the hierarchical structures of the 2 types of effects. Possible data contamination is accommodated by adopting the least absolute deviation loss function. The advantage of the proposed approach over the alternatives is convincingly demonstrated in both simulation and a case study on lung cancer prognosis with gene expression measurements and clinical covariates under the accelerated failure time model.

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AlgorithmsGene-Environment InteractionMultivariate AnalysisSurvival AnalysisComputer SimulationConfounding Factors, EpidemiologicHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateLung NeoplasmsNeoplasmsRisk Factorsgene-environment interactionspenalized selectionprognosisrobust estimation

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PMID29034484
PMCPMC5827955
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