Preface ....................................................... vii
1 Introduction and Overview of Statistical Approaches to
Gene × Environment Interactions for Complex Phenotypes ....... 1
Michael Windle
2 Two-Stage Procedures for the Identification of Gene x
Environment and Gene × Gene Interactions in Genome-Wide
Association Studies ......................................... 11
Charles Kooperberg, James Y. Dai, and Li Hsu
3 Marker-Set Approaches for Assessing Gene × Environment
Interactions at Gene Level .................................. 35
Jung-Ying Tzeng and Arnab Maity
4 Set-Based Gene × Environment Interaction Tests for Complex
Diseases with Application to Genome-Wide Association and
Sequencing Studies .......................................... 53
Shuo Jiao
5 A Gene-Based Approach for Testing Gene × Gene and Gene x
Environment Interactions .................................... 71
Tao Wang
6 An Overview of the RELIEF Algorithm and Advancements ........ 95
Alexandre Todorov
7 Gene × Environment Interaction in Obesity: The
Contribution of Randomized Clinical Trials ................. 117
Jeanne M. McCaffery and Caroline Y. Doyle
8 Statistical Strategies for Modeling Gene × Environment
Interactions in Longitudinal Cohort Studies ................ 147
Bhramar Mukherjee, Yin-Hsiu Chen, Yi-An Ко, Zihuai He,
Seunggeun Lee, Min Zhang, and Sung Kyun Park
9 Cumulative Gene × Environment Influences on
Neurobehavioral Development in Humans and Nonhuman
Primates ................................................... 193
Fatima Umber Ahmed and Erin Loraine Kinnally
10 Complex Phenotypes and the Use of Polygenic Scores to
Investigate Gene × Environment Interactions for Substance
Use ........................................................ 219
Michael Windle
11 A Statistical Framework for Mediation in Environmental
Epigenetics ................................................ 251
Duncan C. Thomas
Contributors .................................................. 281
Index ......................................................... 283
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