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Case-sibling studies that acknowledge unstudied parents and permit the inclusion of unmatched individualsMin Shi
Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Int J Epidemiol 42:298-307. 2013..Analysis typically accounts for within-family dependencies by using conditional logistic regression (CLR)...
Genome wide study of maternal and parent-of-origin effects on the etiology of orofacial cleftsMin Shi
Biostatistics Branch, NIEHS NIH, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Am J Med Genet A 158:784-94. 2012..Thus, the most promising SNPs identified by this study may still be worth further investigation...
How much are we missing in SNP-by-SNP analyses of genome-wide association studies?Min Shi
Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Epidemiology 22:845-7. 2011..These examples highlight the need for better methods for gene-by-environment and gene-by-gene analyses...
Evaluation of candidate genes in a genome-wide association study of childhood asthma in MexicansHao Wu
Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 125:321-327.e13. 2010..However, many have not been systematically replicated in human populations, especially those containing a large number of tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)...
Using imputed genotypes for relative risk estimation in case-parent studiesMin Shi
Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Am J Epidemiol 173:553-9. 2011..This method should be useful to investigators who wish to conduct meta-analyses using imputed SNP data from both case-parent triad and case-control studies...
Identification of microdeletions in candidate genes for cleft lip and/or palateMin Shi
Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 85:42-51. 2009..The panels used for such analyses can detect single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants, both of which may help to identify small deleted regions of the genome that may contribute to a particular disease...
Family-based gene-by-environment interaction studies: revelations and remediesMin Shi
Biostatistics Branch, NIEHS, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Epidemiology 22:400-7. 2011..We also use simulations to assess the power for detecting interaction across a range of scenarios, designs, and analytic methods...
Oral facial clefts and gene polymorphisms in metabolism of folate/one-carbon and vitamin A: a pathway-wide association studyAbee L Boyles
Epidemiology Branch, NIEHS NIH, Durham, North Carolina 27709, USA
Genet Epidemiol 33:247-55. 2009..Despite strong evidence for genetic causes of oral facial clefts and the protective effects of maternal vitamins, we found no convincing indication that polymorphisms in these vitamin metabolism genes play an etiologic role...
The genetics of preterm birth: using what we know to design better association studiesClarice R Weinberg
Biostatistics Branch, Mail Drop A3 03, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P O Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Am J Epidemiol 170:1373-81. 2009..Both designs offer important advantages over the commonly applied case-mother/control-mother design...
Using case-parent triads to estimate relative risks associated with a candidate haplotypeMin Shi
Biostatistics Branch, NIEHS, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Ann Hum Genet 73:346-59. 2009..To illustrate, we reanalyze data from a study of orofacial clefts to investigate a 9-SNP candidate haplotype of the IRF6 gene...
A sibling-augmented case-only approach for assessing multiplicative gene-environment interactionsClarice R Weinberg
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Am J Epidemiol 174:1183-9. 2011..They also show that robust analyses of interactions using tetrads or disease-discordant sibling pairs are equivalent to analyses using the SACO design...
Testing haplotype-environment interactions using case-parent triadsMin Shi
Biostatistics Branch, NIEHS, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Hum Hered 70:23-33. 2010..We propose a procedure that uses case-parent triad data and, though not fully robust, resists bias from population structure...
An exploratory analysis on gene-environment interactions for Parkinson diseaseJianjun Gao
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Neurobiol Aging 33:2528.e1-6. 2012..This study provides preliminary evidence of a potential gene-environment interaction for PD, which should be investigated in future studies...
Review on genetic variants and maternal smoking in the etiology of oral clefts and other birth defectsMin Shi
Biostatistics Branch, NIEHS, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Birth Defects Res C Embryo Today 84:16-29. 2008..As samples and data become increasingly available, more effort is needed in designing innovative analytical methods to study gene-environment interactions...
Identification of risk-related haplotypes with the use of multiple SNPs from nuclear familiesMin Shi
Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Am J Hum Genet 81:53-66. 2007..As an illustration, we reanalyze data from a previously reported orofacial cleft study, to now investigate both fetal and maternal effects of the IRF6 gene...
Genome-wide association study implicates chromosome 9q21.31 as a susceptibility locus for asthma in mexican childrenDana B Hancock
Department of Health and Human Services, Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
PLoS Genet 5:e1000623. 2009....
