Homework week 3

Re: Homework week 3

by Maria Glymour -
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Thanks for these comments Tene.

I want to emphasize that GxE interactions can occur and contribute to health disparities even for genetic variants that do not have differential prevalence between groups.  If the environmental exposure is differentially distributed, then it doesn't matter if the frequency of the genetic factors is similar across groups: the people with the high-risk genetic allele will be differentially affected in the disadvantaged group.  

Maria