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SUBMITTER: Zhang W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4041108 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Weiming W Langefeld Carl D CD Grunwald Gary K GK Fingerlin Tasha E TE
Statistics in medicine 20130806 2
The study of gene-environment interactions is an increasingly important aspect of genetic epidemiological investigation. Historically, it has been difficult to study gene-environment interactions using a family-based design for quantitative traits or when parent-offspring trios were incomplete. The QBAT-I provides researchers a tool to estimate and test for a gene-environment interaction in families of arbitrary structure that are sampled without regard to the phenotype of interest, but is vulne ...[more]