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Chunk #56 — THE NATURE OF GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

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Gene-environment interaction in psychological traits and disorders.
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study of gene-environment interaction. It becomes even more problematic when you consider that logistic regression is the method commonly used to test for gene-environment interactions with dichotomous disease status outcomes. Logistic regression involves a logarithmic transformation of the probability of being affected. By definition, this changes the nature of the relationship between the variables being modeled. This compounds problems associated with gene-environment interactions being scale dependent.