Quantification of the overall contribution of gene-environment interaction for obesity-related traits

Most gene-by-environment interaction methods rely on the availability of the interacting environment. Here, the authors propose a robust maximum likelihood method for estimating the overall statistical interaction between a genetic risk score for a continuous outcome and all environmental variables.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jonathan Sulc, Ninon Mounier, Felix Günther, Thomas Winkler, Andrew R. Wood, Timothy M. Frayling, Iris M. Heid, Matthew R. Robinson, Zoltán Kutalik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15107-0
Description
Summary:Most gene-by-environment interaction methods rely on the availability of the interacting environment. Here, the authors propose a robust maximum likelihood method for estimating the overall statistical interaction between a genetic risk score for a continuous outcome and all environmental variables.
ISSN:2041-1723