Accounting for Population Structure in Gene-by-Environment Interactions in Genome-Wide Association Studies Using Mixed Models.

Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have discovered numerous novel genetic variants associated with many complex traits and diseases, those genetic variants typically explain only a small fraction of phenotypic variance. Factors that account for phenotypic variance include environmental...

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Main Authors: Jae Hoon Sul, Michael Bilow, Wen-Yun Yang, Emrah Kostem, Nick Furlotte, Dan He, Eleazar Eskin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-03-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4778803?pdf=render