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Gene-Environment Interplay in

Common Complex Diseases:

Forging an Integrative Model

Natcher Conference Center, NIH

Campus

Bethesda, Maryland

January 25, 2010

Background: The longstanding nature-versus-nurture

debate has been turned on its head. Scientists now

recognize that it is not a question of genes or

environment, but rather, that genes and environment

are inextricably intertwined throughout development to

explain virtually every observable trait. To gain a more

detailed understanding of the impact of genetic and

environmental factors on health and disease, the NIH

Genes, Environment and Health Initiative (GEI)

(www.gei.nih.gov) was launched in 2006. The GEI

program supports genetic analyses and the

development of technologies to measure environmental

exposures through its Genetics Program

(www.gei.nih.gov/genetics/) and Exposure Biology

Program (EBP; www.gei.nih.gov/exposurebiology

/index.asp), respectively.

Goal: The goal of the workshop was to engage the

scientific community in discussing and conceptualizing

a truly transdisciplinary model of geneenvironment

research that fully integrates the genetics and

environment sides of the geneenvironment equation.

The workshop featured presentations to showcase the

stateofthescience and focused discussions to

articulate future needs and directions in research and

training on gene-environment interplay related to

health.

This workshop was sponsored by the National

Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and

Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) in conjunction with

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the NIH Genes, Environment and Health Initiative.

Planning Committee:

Tanya Agurs-Collins, Ph.D. (NCI)

Audie Atienza, Ph.D. (NCI)

David Balshaw, Ph.D. (NIEHS)

Ebony Bookman, Ph.D. (NHGRI)

Jennifer Collins (NIEHS)

Elizabeth Gillanders, Ph.D. (NCI)

Emily Harris, Ph.D. (NHGRI)Kimberly McAllister, Ph.D. (NIEHS)

Paige McDonald, Ph.D. (NCI)

Dina Paltoo, Ph.D., M.P.H. (NHLBI)

Sonja Preston, M.S.W. (OBSSR)

Jill Reedy, Ph.D. (NCI)

Joni Rutter, Ph.D. (NIDA)

Daniel Shaughnessy, Ph.D. (NIEHS)

Kay Wanke, Ph.D., M.P.H. (OBSSR)

Agenda

10:00

a.m.Registration

8:30

a.m.Welcome and Introduction

Deborah H. Olster, PhD, Deputy Director,

OBSSR

Eric Green, MD, PhD, Director, NHGRI

Linda S. Birnbaum, PhD, DABT, ATS,

Director, NIEHS

9:00a.m.

GxE Interplay: The perspective from

the genetics side

GWAS

Perspective

Laura Bierut, MD,

Washington University in

St. Louis

Statistical

Genetics

Peter Kraft, PhD, Harvard

School of Public Health

Epigenetics Margaret Danielle Fallin,

PhD, Johns Hopkins

University

10:00

a.m.Break

10:15

a.m.GxE Interplay: The perspective from

the environment side

Molecular

Exposures

Frederica P. Perera, MPH,

DrPH, Columbia

University

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Developmental

Psychology

Eric Turkheimer, PhD,

University of Virginia

Social Science Jason D. Boardman, PhD,

University of Colorado at

Boulder

11:30

a.m.Overview of afternoon and goals for

breakout sessions

12:00

p.m.Lunch (on your own)

1:00

p.m.Breakout Group Discussions in Natcher

Meeting Rooms

Breakout Group Leaders

Eric Boerwinkle, PhD, The University of

Texas

Neil E. Caporaso, MD, National Cancer

Institute

Nancy J. Cox, PhD, The Universi ty of

ChicagoPriya Duggal, PhD, MPH, Johns Hopkins

University

Lynn R. Goldman, MD, MPH, Johns

Hopkins University

Megan R. Gunnar, PhD, Universi ty of

Minnesota

Irva Hertz-Picciotto, PhD, MPH, University

of California, Davis

Kristen C. Jacobs0n, PhD, The University

of Chicago

Will iam L. Lowe, Jr., MD, Northwestern

UniversityMary L. Marazita, PhD, FACMG,

University of Pi ttsburgh

Stephen M. Rappaport, PhD, Universi ty of

California, Berkeley

Stephen J. Suomi, PhD, Eunice Kennedy

Shriver National Institute of Child Health

and

Human Development

3:15

p.m.Break

3:30

p.m.Reports from the Break Out Group

Leaders (10 minute presentations)

4:30

p.m.Panel Discussion and Q&A

5:00

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