TOMORROW: PQG Short Course - Peter Kraft - 4/23
Ingalls, Carolyn
Dear Colleagues,
Please join us for the last PQG Short Course of the semester:
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Building 2, Room 426 (Biostatistics Conference Room)
12:30-2:00 PM
Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
Challenges in the study of gene-environment interaction in genetic epidemiology
Many chronic diseases are caused by a complex interplay of multiple genes and multiple clinical, social and environmental risk factors. Epidemiology can help identify the key players in this network and how they interact. However, untangling the causal web from observational data can be quite difficult.
This lecture will introduce the methodological, statistical, and practical challenges in the study of gene-environment interactions. It will also review what is known about the epidemiology of gene-environment interactions in several complex diseases, and summarize the recommendations from a recent “Gene-Environment Think Tank” sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.
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