{"id":2960,"date":"2009-09-19T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T10:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2010-02-13T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T11:42:20","slug":"lets-not-call-it-gene-environment-interaction-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/09\/lets-not-call-it-gene-environment-interaction-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Lets not call it &#8220;gene-environment-interaction&#8221; anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ng\/journal\/v1\/n1\/abs\/ng0492-3.html\">reminescence<\/a>)<br \/>\nGene-environment-interaction is a large bubble in complex disease research area with a label that is itself questionable. Genes do not interact with the environment (or only indirectly); the environment does not interact with genes (situations like epigenetic modification or induction of mutations are at least not meant here).<br \/>\nWhat is being meant by &#8220;gene-environment-interaction&#8221;, could be described as &#8220;genetically conditioned environmental influence&#8221; (GCEI) but not as GxE interaction&#8230; BTW is there any online list of GCEIs?<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 15.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(reminescence) Gene-environment-interaction is a large bubble in complex disease research area with a label that is itself questionable. Genes do not interact with the environment (or only indirectly); the environment does not interact with genes (situations like epigenetic modification or induction of mutations are at least not meant here). What is being meant by &#8220;gene-environment-interaction&#8221;, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/09\/lets-not-call-it-gene-environment-interaction-anymore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lets not call it &#8220;gene-environment-interaction&#8221; anymore<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[2561],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","category-genetics-biology","tag-reverse-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}