An exposure-weighted score test for genetic associations integrating environmental risk factors
Summer S. Han
Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California 94305, U.S.A.
Search for more papers by this authorPhilip S. Rosenberg
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 9609 Medical Center Drive Suite, Rockville, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, U.S.A.
Search for more papers by this authorArpita Ghosh
Public Health Foundation of India, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, India
Search for more papers by this authorMaria Teresa Landi
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 9609 Medical Center Drive Suite, Rockville, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, U.S.A.
Search for more papers by this authorNeil E. Caporaso
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 9609 Medical Center Drive Suite, Rockville, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, U.S.A.
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Nilanjan Chatterjee
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 9609 Medical Center Drive Suite, Rockville, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, U.S.A.
email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorSummer S. Han
Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California 94305, U.S.A.
Search for more papers by this authorPhilip S. Rosenberg
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 9609 Medical Center Drive Suite, Rockville, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, U.S.A.
Search for more papers by this authorArpita Ghosh
Public Health Foundation of India, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, India
Search for more papers by this authorMaria Teresa Landi
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 9609 Medical Center Drive Suite, Rockville, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, U.S.A.
Search for more papers by this authorNeil E. Caporaso
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 9609 Medical Center Drive Suite, Rockville, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, U.S.A.
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Nilanjan Chatterjee
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 9609 Medical Center Drive Suite, Rockville, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, U.S.A.
email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorSummary
Current methods for detecting genetic associations lack full consideration of the background effects of environmental exposures. Recently proposed methods to account for environmental exposures have focused on logistic regressions with gene–environment interactions. In this report, we developed a test for genetic association, encompassing a broad range of risk models, including linear, logistic and probit, for specifying joint effects of genetic and environmental exposures. We obtained the test statistics by maximizing over a class of score tests, each of which involves modified standard tests of genetic association through a weight function. This weight function reflects the potential heterogeneity of the genetic effects by levels of environmental exposures under a particular model. Simulation studies demonstrate the robust power of these methods for detecting genetic associations under a wide range of scenarios. Applications of these methods are further illustrated using data from genome-wide association studies of type 2 diabetes with body mass index and of lung cancer risk with smoking.
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