BMC Bioinformatics, 2012 Background The analysis of complex diseases is an important problem in human genetics. Because multifactoriality is expected to play a pivotal role, many studies are currently focused on collecting information on the genetic and environmental factors ...
Pinelli Michele +4 more
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Gene–environment interactions in human health: case studies and strategies for developing new paradigms and research methodologies [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2014 THE SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF GENES AND THE ENVIRONMENT ON HEALTH ARE EXPLORED IN THREE CASE STUDIES: adult lactase persistence, autism spectrum disorders, and the metabolic syndrome, providing examples of the interactive complexities underlying these phenotypes.
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Interactions between Polygenic Scores and Environments: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges
Sociological Science, 2020 Interest in the study of gene–environment interaction has recently grown due to the sudden availability of molecular genetic data—in particular, polygenic scores—in many long-running longitudinal studies.
Benjamin W. Domingue +3 more
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Regulation of Pancreatic β-Cell Mass by Gene-Environment Interaction [PDF]
Diabetes & Metabolism Journal, 2022 The main pathogenic mechanism of diabetes consists of an increase in insulin resistance and a decrease in insulin secretion from pancreatic β-cells. The number of diabetic patients has been increasing dramatically worldwide, especially in Asian people ...
Shun-ichiro Asahara +2 more
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Artificial neural networks modeling gene-environment interaction
BMC Genetics, 2012 Background Gene-environment interactions play an important role in the etiological pathway of complex diseases. An appropriate statistical method for handling a wide variety of complex situations involving interactions between variables is still lacking,
Günther Frauke +2 more
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Candidate gene-environment interactions in substance abuse: A systematic review.
PLoS ONE, 2023 BackgroundThe abuse of psychogenic drugs can lead to multiple health-related problems. Genetic and environmental vulnerabilities are factors in the emergence of substance use disorders.
Zheng Jiang, Zidong Chen, Xi Chen
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Gene-environment interaction between body mass index and transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGFβ1) gene in knee and hip osteoarthritis [PDF]
, 2013 Introduction: The objective was to investigate potential gene-environment interaction between body mass index (BMI) and each of eight TGFβ1 polymorphisms in knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA).
Muthuri, Stella G. +19 more
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Genetic interactions affecting human gene expression identified by variance association mapping
eLife, 2014 Non-additive interaction between genetic variants, or epistasis, is a possible explanation for the gap between heritability of complex traits and the variation explained by identified genetic loci.
Andrew Anand Brown +9 more
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Information-theoretic gene-gene and gene-environment interaction analysis of quantitative traits
BMC Genomics, 2009 Background The purpose of this research was to develop a novel information theoretic method and an efficient algorithm for analyzing the gene-gene (GGI) and gene-environmental interactions (GEI) associated with quantitative traits (QT).
Liu Song +4 more
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Breast Cancer Research, 2023 Background Moderate to heavy alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. The etiologic role of genetic variation in genes involved in ethanol metabolism has not been established, with little information available among ...
Kristin L. Young +8 more
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