Calibrated prediction intervals for polygenic scores across diverse contexts

K Hou, Z Xu, Y Ding, R Mandla, Z Shi, K Boulier… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic scores (PGS) have emerged as the tool of choice for genomic prediction in a wide
range of fields. We show that PGS performance varies broadly across contexts and …

Quantifying portable genetic effects and improving cross-ancestry genetic prediction with GWAS summary statistics

J Miao, H Guo, G Song, Z Zhao, L Hou, Q Lu - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) calculated from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of
Europeans are known to have substantially reduced predictive accuracy in non-European …

Genome-wide discovery for biomarkers using quantile regression at biobank scale

C Wang, T Wang, K Kiryluk, Y Wei, H Aschard… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for biomarkers important for clinical phenotypes
can lead to clinically relevant discoveries. Conventional GWAS for quantitative traits are …

Statistical methods for gene–environment interaction analysis

J Miao, Y Wu, Q Lu - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Most human complex phenotypes result from multiple genetic and environmental factors and
their interactions. Understanding the mechanisms by which genetic and environmental …

Evaluating the continued integration of genetics into medical sociology

JD Boardman, JM Fletcher - Journal of Health and Social …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The 2010 special issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior, titled “Fifty Years of
Medical Sociology,” defined the contours of the medical sociological perspective. We use …

Gene-by-peer-environment interaction effects on cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use among US high school students of European Ancestry

B Zheng, J Fletcher, F Zheng, Q Lu - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Research has shown that adolescents' substance use behavior is determined not only by
individual characteristics but also by peer environments, and an emerging literature in social …

Reimagining gene-environment interaction analysis for human complex traits

J Miao, G Song, Y Wu, J Hu, Y Wu, S Basu, JS Andrews… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
In this study, we introduce PIGEON—a novel statistical framework for quantifying and
estimating polygenic gene-environment interaction (GxE) using a variance component …

[HTML][HTML] Interaction of family SES with children's genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational …

G Ghirardi, CJ Gil-Hernández, F Bernardi… - Research in Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study examines the role of genes and environments in predicting educational
outcomes. We test the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis, suggesting that enriched environments …

Characterization of gene-environment interactions for vitamin D through variance quantitative trait loci: a UK Biobank-based genetic epidemiology study

T Lu, W Zhang, C Robinson-Cohen… - The American Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Background Understanding gene-environment interactions associated with vitamin D status
may refine nutrition and public health strategies for vitamin D deficiency. Recent …

Detecting gene–environment interactions from multiple continuous traits

WY Lin - Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Genetic variants present differential effects on humans according to various
environmental exposures, the so-called “gene–environment interactions”(GxE). Many …