在基因与环境相互作用的评估中错误分类偏差
Marc G Weisskopf1,2, Michael Leung1
1Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
|May 31, 2023
概括
错误分类偏差,就像回忆偏差一样,可以影响基因与环境的相互作用. 然而,即使基因与环境的依赖性存在,通过界定效应来确定这些相互作用往往仍然是可能的.
科学领域:
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 遗传流行病学遗传流行病学
- 生物统计学 生物统计学
背景情况:
- 错误分类偏差是流行病学研究中的一个重大挑战.
- 基因-环境相互作用通常偏向于基因-环境独立性下的零值.
- 回忆偏见是一种错误分类形式,可以影响基因与环境相互作用的识别,特别是当独立性受到侵犯时.
研究的目的:
- 评估回忆偏差对识别基因环境相互作用的影响,当基因环境独立假设被违反时.
- 在错误分类的情况下量化基因环境相互作用的偏差.
- 探索基因与环境相互作用的条件,尽管违反了独立性假设,但仍然可以识别.
主要方法:
- 衍生方程来量化基因与环境相互作用中的偏差.
- 模拟了一项与1000例病例和1000例对照进行的病例控制研究.
- 嵌入的参数,如暴露率,基因环境依赖,主要影响和相互作用强度等.
主要成果:
- 即使基因环境独立性被侵犯,基因环境相互作用也可以被限制,使用依赖和观察到的相互作用的强度和方向.
- 观察到的相互作用可以作为真实相互作用的下限或上限.
- 偏差的大小是可预测的,基于暴露的流行率,主要效应强度,以及回忆偏差和基因环境依赖的方向.
结论:
- 鉴定基因与环境相互作用仍然是可行的,即使存在错误分类偏差.
- 基因环境依赖的存在并不妨碍在存在错误分类时识别相互作用.
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