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Chunk #2 — Challenges to G × E studies — Exposure assessment

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Gene--environment-wide association studies: emerging approaches.
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can be large and lead to unpredictable biases, particularly if differential with respect to disease, and can induce spurious interactions9. Although methods of correction for exposure or genotype measurement errors are well established for main effects, they have seldom been applied to interaction analyses14,15. In general, however, interactions are less likely to be biased than main effects unless the measurement errors are differentially related to both exposure and genotype.