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New fastGxE tool detects gene-environment interactions at biobank scale
Original: Genome-wide detection of genotype–environment interactions at biobank scale with fastGxE
Researchers have introduced fastGxE, a method for detecting genome-wide genotype-environment interactions at biobank scale, published in Nature. The approach makes it feasible to analyse how genetic effects vary with environmental factors across hundreds of thousands of samples, something previous methods struggled to do efficiently. It is expected to help researchers better understand how genes and environment combine to shape complex traits and disease risk.
Why now: The publication in Nature of a scalable method for gene-environment interaction analysis has drawn attention from genetics and biobank researchers.
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