2015
Applying Novel Methods for Assessing Individual- and Neighborhood-Level Social and Psychosocial Environment Interactions with Genetic Factors in the Prediction of Depressive Symptoms in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Ware E, Smith J, Mukherjee B, Lee S, Kardia S, Diez-Roux A. Applying Novel Methods for Assessing Individual- and Neighborhood-Level Social and Psychosocial Environment Interactions with Genetic Factors in the Prediction of Depressive Symptoms in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Behavior Genetics 2015, 46: 89-99. PMID: 26254610, PMCID: PMC4720563, DOI: 10.1007/s10519-015-9734-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDepressive symptom scoresMulti-Ethnic Study of AtherosclerosisGene regionNeighborhood levelMulti-Ethnic StudyPredictive of depressive symptomsStudy of AtherosclerosisMultiple race/ethnicitiesMultiple testing correctionAssess individual-SKAT analysisNeighborhood factorsEtiology of depressive illnessDepressive symptomsPsychosocial stressorsSymptom scoresComplex illnessTesting correctionRace/ethnicityRace/ethnicitiesEthnic groupsDepressive illnessGenetic predispositionIndividual-Genetic factors
2014
Latent variable models for gene–environment interactions in longitudinal studies with multiple correlated exposures
Tao Y, Sánchez B, Mukherjee B. Latent variable models for gene–environment interactions in longitudinal studies with multiple correlated exposures. Statistics In Medicine 2014, 34: 1227-1241. PMID: 25545894, PMCID: PMC4355187, DOI: 10.1002/sim.6401.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBiostatisticsChild, PreschoolComputer SimulationEnvironmental ExposureFemaleGene-Environment InteractionHemochromatosis ProteinHistocompatibility Antigens Class IHumansInfantInfant, NewbornLead PoisoningLongitudinal StudiesMembrane ProteinsMexicoModels, GeneticModels, StatisticalPolymorphism, Single NucleotidePregnancyPrenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsConceptsGene-environment interactionsOutcome measuresCohort studyHealth effects of environmental exposuresEnvironmental exposuresInvestigate health effectsGene-environment associationsEffects of environmental exposuresEarly life exposuresLV frameworkG x E effectsMultivariate exposuresGenotyped single nucleotide polymorphismsEffect modificationShrinkage estimatorsLife exposureExposure measurementsSingle nucleotide polymorphismsData-adaptive wayMultiple testingOutcome dataLongitudinal studyLongitudinal natureGenetic factorsNucleotide polymorphisms
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
2007
Accounting for error due to misclassification of exposures in case–control studies of gene–environment interaction
Zhang L, Mukherjee B, Ghosh M, Gruber S, Moreno V. Accounting for error due to misclassification of exposures in case–control studies of gene–environment interaction. Statistics In Medicine 2007, 27: 2756-2783. PMID: 17879261, DOI: 10.1002/sim.3044.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCase-control studyCase-control study of colorectal cancerGene-environment independence assumptionStudy of gene-environment interactionsStudy of colorectal cancerCase-control study designEnvironmental exposuresDisease-exposure associationsCase-control dataMisclassification of exposureGene-environment interactionsDegree of misclassificationStudy designConfidence intervalsGenotyping errorsValidation subsampleColorectal cancerAnalysis of dataMisclassification error rateGenetic factorsIndependence assumptionMisclassificationMisclassified dataAnalytical formEstimation strategy
2006
Bayesian modeling for genetic association in case-control studies: accounting for unknown population substructure
Zhang L, Mukherjee B, Ghosh M, Wu R. Bayesian modeling for genetic association in case-control studies: accounting for unknown population substructure. Statistical Modelling 2006, 6: 352-372. DOI: 10.1177/1471082006071841.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPopulation substructureCase-control studyGenetic association studiesLog odds ratio parametersOdds ratio parametersAssociation studiesAllele frequenciesGenetic associationParametric Bayesian methodsArgentinean populationBayesian modelCredible intervalsGenetic factorsBayesian methodsStatistical propertiesNumerical integration techniquesPosterior probabilityAssociation modelPopulationAllelesGenesAssociationIntegration techniqueMarkovObesity