Quantification of the overall contribution of gene-environment interaction for obesity-related traits

oleh: Jonathan Sulc, Ninon Mounier, Felix Günther, Thomas Winkler, Andrew R. Wood, Timothy M. Frayling, Iris M. Heid, Matthew R. Robinson, Zoltán Kutalik

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-03-01

Deskripsi

Most gene-by-environment interaction methods rely on the availability of the interacting environment. Here, the authors propose a robust maximum likelihood method for estimating the overall statistical interaction between a genetic risk score for a continuous outcome and all environmental variables.