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Susceptibility gene discovery for common metabolic and endocrine traits.
Journal of molecular endocrinology - 1 Feb 2002
McCarthy M I
Abstract excerpt
Almost all major causes of ill-health and premature death in human societies worldwide - including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and many infectious diseases - are, at least in part, genetically determined. Typically, risk of succumbing to one of these illnesses is thought to depend on both the individual repertoire of variation within a number of key susceptibility genes and the history of exposure to...
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