Investigating Interactions Among Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors in Longitudinal Family Studies with Application to the Quebec Newborn Twin Study

Gene-environment (GE) interactions involving the IGF pathway may affect childhood obesity. Detecting such interactions using longitudinal family studies requires accounting for individual and familial correlations. Simulations were performed to study three methods to test for GE interactions in long...

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Main Author: Wang, Cheng
Other Authors: Roy-Gagnon, Marie-Hélène
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36538
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-20818