Most common human diseases are complex with multiple genetic and environmental factors that can interact. This doctoral work proposes two new statistical methods to study gene-environment interactions. The first method uses information on the familial recurrence of the disease to identify an interaction between an environmental factor and the genetic component involved in the disease. The second method allows accounting for gene-environment interactions in genome-wide association studies when the exposure information is not available for controls. This situation has become more frequent with the use of reference control panels in those studies. These two methods bring new tools to study simultaneously the genetic and the environmental facto...
Genetic and environmental factors are both known to contribute to susceptibility to complex diseases...
The interest in performing gene-environment interaction studies has seen a significant increase with...
People vary genetically in their susceptibility to the effects of environmental risk factors for man...
Most common human diseases are complex with multiple genetic and environmental factors that can inte...
It is a commonly held belief that most complex diseases (e.g., diabetes, asthma, cancer) are affecte...
This thesis concerns the identification of the genetic and environmental causes of complex diseases....
The lack of knowledge about the earliest events in disease development is due to the multi-factorial...
Recently, many new approaches, study designs, and statistical and analytical methods have emerged fo...
Abstract: The lack of knowledge about the earliest events in disease development is due to the mult...
Approximately 100,000 different environmental chemicals that are in use as high production volume ch...
BACKGROUND: Complex diseases are multifactorial traits caused by both genetic and environmental fact...
[[abstract]]Despite the importance of gene-environment (G x E) interactions in the etiology of commo...
During the last decades, the amount of available genetic data on populations has growndrastically. F...
Complex diseases are likely to be caused by the interplay of genetic and environmental factors. Desp...
The large part of human pathology is composed by complex disease, such as heart disease, obesity, ca...
Genetic and environmental factors are both known to contribute to susceptibility to complex diseases...
The interest in performing gene-environment interaction studies has seen a significant increase with...
People vary genetically in their susceptibility to the effects of environmental risk factors for man...
Most common human diseases are complex with multiple genetic and environmental factors that can inte...
It is a commonly held belief that most complex diseases (e.g., diabetes, asthma, cancer) are affecte...
This thesis concerns the identification of the genetic and environmental causes of complex diseases....
The lack of knowledge about the earliest events in disease development is due to the multi-factorial...
Recently, many new approaches, study designs, and statistical and analytical methods have emerged fo...
Abstract: The lack of knowledge about the earliest events in disease development is due to the mult...
Approximately 100,000 different environmental chemicals that are in use as high production volume ch...
BACKGROUND: Complex diseases are multifactorial traits caused by both genetic and environmental fact...
[[abstract]]Despite the importance of gene-environment (G x E) interactions in the etiology of commo...
During the last decades, the amount of available genetic data on populations has growndrastically. F...
Complex diseases are likely to be caused by the interplay of genetic and environmental factors. Desp...
The large part of human pathology is composed by complex disease, such as heart disease, obesity, ca...
Genetic and environmental factors are both known to contribute to susceptibility to complex diseases...
The interest in performing gene-environment interaction studies has seen a significant increase with...
People vary genetically in their susceptibility to the effects of environmental risk factors for man...