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Diet, genetic susceptibility and carcinogenesis.
Public health nutrition - 1 Apr 2001
Vineis P
Abstract excerpt
At least six types of gene-environment interactions (GEI) have been proposed (Kouhry and Wagener, 1993). In the first type, neither the environmental exposure (EE) nor the genetic risk factor (GRF) have any effect by themselves, but interaction between them causes disease. This is the case of phenylalanine exposure and the phenylketonuria genotype. Type 2 is a situation in which the GRF has no effect on disease...
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