Janet Sinsheimer: UCLA Departments of Human Genetics, Biomathematics and Biostatistics

Biological mechanisms involving a combination of genetic and environmental factors have been hypothesized to explain susceptibility to complex familial
disease. I will present our efforts to detect interactions between mother’s and child’s genes that may create adverse prenatal environments and increase susceptibility to diseases such as schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis.
http://www.bec.ucla.edu/papers/Sinsheimer_5.7.07a.pdf