2013
Environmental Confounding in Gene-Environment Interaction Studies
Vanderweele T, Ko Y, Mukherjee B. Environmental Confounding in Gene-Environment Interaction Studies. American Journal Of Epidemiology 2013, 178: 144-152. PMID: 23821317, PMCID: PMC3698991, DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws439.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGene-environment independenceGene-environment interaction studiesGene-environment interactionsEnvironmental confoundersGenetic factorsJoint testGene-environmentGenetic effectsEnvironmental factorsConfounding variablesConfoundingInteraction studiesSimulation studyJoint nullSample sizeBias estimatesFactorsIndependenceStudyTest
2009
Shrinkage estimation for robust and efficient screening of single‐SNP association from case‐control genome‐wide association studies
Luo S, Mukherjee B, Chen J, Chatterjee N. Shrinkage estimation for robust and efficient screening of single‐SNP association from case‐control genome‐wide association studies. Genetic Epidemiology 2009, 33: 740-750. PMID: 19434716, PMCID: PMC3103068, DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20428.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsCase-Control StudiesComputational BiologyComputer SimulationData Interpretation, StatisticalFalse Positive ReactionsGenetic MarkersGenomeGenome, HumanGenome-Wide Association StudyGenotypeHumansLikelihood FunctionsModels, StatisticalPolymorphism, Single NucleotideReproducibility of ResultsConceptsHardy-Weinberg equilibriumAssociation TestPopulation-based case-control designGenome-wide association scanGenome-wide association studiesSingle-SNP associationsCase-control designCase-control studyAssociation scansAssociation studiesGenetic markersSusceptibility SNPsRecessive effectUnderlying populationAssociationFalse-positive resultsEfficient screeningSNPsRare diseaseShrinkage estimatorsSimulation studyStudyTestTwo-degrees-of-freedomPopulation