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ArticleBehavior genetics2023

A Varying Coefficient Model to Jointly Test Genetic and Gene-Environment Interaction Effects.

Zhengyang Zhou, Hung-Chih Ku, Sydney E Manning, Ming Zhang, Chao Xing

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Article in Behavior genetics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. High-Dimensional Gene-Environment Interaction Analysis.Annual review of statistics and its application · 2025
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  3. Gene-environment interactions in human health.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2024
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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.

Zhengyang ZhouDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA. zhengyang.zhou@unthsc.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8039-418X
Hung-Chih KuDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Sydney E ManningDepartment of Pharmacotherapy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA.
Ming ZhangDepartment of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA.
Chao XingMcDermott Center for Human Growth and Development and Department of Bioinformatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. chao.xing@utsouthwestern.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1838-0502
University of North Texas · USDePaul University · USSouthern Methodist University · USSouthwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

The Health & Aging Brain Study - Health Disparities (HABS-HD)U19AG078109 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR · PI Sid E O'Bryant · 2022 to 2026
$181.1M
Wastewater surveillance for addressing environmental health disparitiesU54MD013376 · NIMHD · MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Paul B. Tchounwou · 2019 to 2026
$33.5M
Genome-wide screen for dynamic gene-environment interactionsR03ES034138 · NIEHS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI XING, CHAO · 2022 to 2023
$174k
NIA NIH HHS U19 AG078109NIA NIH HHS U19AG078109NIEHS NIH HHS R03 ES034138NIEHS NIH HHS R03ES034138NIMHD NIH HHS 5U54MD013376-8281
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most human traits are influenced by the interplay between genetic and environmental factors. Many statistical methods have been proposed to screen for gene-environment interaction (GxE) in the post genome-wide association study era. However, most of the existing methods assume a linear interaction between genetic and environmental factors toward phenotypic variations, which diminishes statistical power in the case of nonlinear GxE. In this paper, we present a flexible statistical procedure to detect GxE regardless of whether the underlying relationship is linear or not. By modeling the joint genetic and GxE effects as a varying-coefficient function of the environmental factor, the proposed model is able to capture dynamic trajectories of GxE. We employ a likelihood ratio test with a fast Monte Carlo algorithm for hypothesis testing. Simulations were conducted to evaluate validity and power of the proposed model in various settings. Real data analysis was performed to illustrate its power, in particular, in the case of nonlinear GxE.

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Gene-Environment InteractionGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansLikelihood FunctionsModels, GeneticPhenotypeGene-environment interactionLinear mixed modelNonlinear interactionSpline functionVarying coefficient

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PMID36622576
PMCPMC10277225
OpenAlexW4313877511

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