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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Mutual Information For Testing Gene-Environment Interaction, Xuesen Wu, Li Jiin, Momiao Xiong
Mutual Information For Testing Gene-Environment Interaction, Xuesen Wu, Li Jiin, Momiao Xiong
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Despite current enthusiasm for investigation of gene-gene interactions and gene-environment interactions, the essential issue of how to define and detect gene-environment interactions remains unresolved. In this report, we define gene-environment interactions as a stochastic dependence in the context of the effects of the genetic and environmental risk factors on the cause of phenotypic variation among individuals. We use mutual information that is widely used in communication and complex system analysis to measure gene-environment interactions. We investigate how gene-environment interactions generate the large difference in the information measure of gene-environment interactions between the general population and a diseased population, which motives …
Reduced Neutrophil Count In People Of African Descent Is Due To A Regulatory Variant In The Duffy Antigen Receptor For Chemokines Gene, David Reich, Michael A. Nalls, W H Linda Kao, Ermeg L. Akylbekova, Arti Tandon, Nick Patterson, James Mullikin, Wen-Chi Hsueh, Ching-Yu Cheng, Josef Coresh, Eric Boerwinkle, Man Li, Alicja Waliszewska, Julie Neubauer, Rongling Li, Tennille S. Leak, Lynette Ekunwe, Joe C. Files, Cheryl L. Hardy, Joseph M. Zmuda, Herman A. Taylor, Elad Ziv, Tamara B. Harris, James G. Wilson
Reduced Neutrophil Count In People Of African Descent Is Due To A Regulatory Variant In The Duffy Antigen Receptor For Chemokines Gene, David Reich, Michael A. Nalls, W H Linda Kao, Ermeg L. Akylbekova, Arti Tandon, Nick Patterson, James Mullikin, Wen-Chi Hsueh, Ching-Yu Cheng, Josef Coresh, Eric Boerwinkle, Man Li, Alicja Waliszewska, Julie Neubauer, Rongling Li, Tennille S. Leak, Lynette Ekunwe, Joe C. Files, Cheryl L. Hardy, Joseph M. Zmuda, Herman A. Taylor, Elad Ziv, Tamara B. Harris, James G. Wilson
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Persistently low white blood cell count (WBC) and neutrophil count is a well-described phenomenon in persons of African ancestry, whose etiology remains unknown. We recently used admixture mapping to identify an approximately 1-megabase region on chromosome 1, where ancestry status (African or European) almost entirely accounted for the difference in WBC between African Americans and European Americans. to identify the specific genetic change responsible for this association, we analyzed genotype and phenotype data from 6,005 African Americans from the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), the Health, Aging and Body Composition (Health ABC) Study, and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. …